DIGITAL Applications Act
Latest action · Jul 9, 2024 Subcommittee Hearings Held
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMay 15, 2023
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Deploying Infrastructure with Greater Internet Transactions And Legacy Applications Act or the DIGITAL Applications Act
This bill requires the Department of the Interior and the Forest Service to each establish an online portal for processing communications use authorizations. These are requests for easements, rights-of-way, leases, licenses, or other authorizations to locate or modify a transmitting device, support structure, or other communications facility on public lands or National Forest System land.
Interior and the Forest Service must also notify the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) within three business days of establishing their respective portals, and once the portals are established, the NTIA must link to them from its website.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on May 15, 2023.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Doris O. Matsui | Original | May 15, 2023 |
Committees 3
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Natural Resources Committee | Referred May 15, 2023 |
| Federal Lands Subcommittee | Referred Jul 8, 2024Hearings Jul 9, 2024 | |
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred May 15, 2023Markup May 24, 2023Reported Jun 7, 2024 |
| Communications and Technology Subcommittee | Referred May 15, 2023Markup May 17, 2023Reported May 17, 2023 | |
| House | Agriculture Committee | Referred May 15, 2023 |
| Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development Subcommittee | Referred Jun 1, 2023 |
Actions 11
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 9, 2024Subcommittee Hearings Held
- Jul 8, 2024Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
- Jun 7, 2024Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 118-546, Part I.
- Jun 1, 2023Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development.
- May 24, 2023Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- May 24, 2023Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 51 - 0.
- May 17, 2023Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- May 17, 2023Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
- May 15, 2023Introduced in House
- May 15, 2023Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- May 15, 2023Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Committee report
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- Aug 25, 2023H.R. 3299, DIGITAL Applications ActAs ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on May 24, 2023
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 169, no. 81, May 15, 2023, page H2348.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 118-134 | H.R. 3283, H.R. 3299, H.R. 5401, H.R. 6012, H.R. 7976, AND H.R. 801267 pages | Natural Resources Committee | Jul 9, 2024 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To require the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture to establish online portals to accept, process, and dispose of certain Form 299s, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- DIGITAL Applications Act
- Deploying Infrastructure with Greater Internet Transactions And Legacy Applications Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 15, 2023Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
