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HR 1588 · in committee · niche

Facilitating DIGITAL Applications Act

What this bill does

  • The bill requires the NTIA to report on whether Interior and Forest Service have created online portals for communications facility permits.
  • Communications companies and others seeking to place infrastructure on public lands are affected by the portal requirements.
  • The NTIA must report within 90 days of enactment, then every 60 days until portals are established, with no direct spending required.

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  1. 01

    How might streamlining permit applications through online portals affect the speed and cost of deploying communications infrastructure on public lands?

  2. 02

    What challenges might the Interior and Forest Service face in creating these digital portals, and how could delays impact communications companies and rural connectivity?

  3. 03

    Should the NTIA continue reporting every 60 days indefinitely, or should there be a deadline after which the reporting requirement ends?

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Mariannette Miller-Meeks

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Introduced 2026-02-04

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Legislative timeline

  1. 2026-02-04 · house · Committee

    Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 119-486, Part I.

  2. 2026-02-04 · Committee

    Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 119-486, Part I.

  3. 2025-12-03 · house · Committee

    Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 50 - 0.

  4. 2025-12-03 · house · Committee

    Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

  5. 2025-11-18 · house · Committee

    Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote.

  6. 2025-11-18 · house · Committee

    Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

  7. 2025-02-26 · house · Committee

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.

  8. 2025-02-26 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and Energy and Commerce, 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.

  9. 2025-02-26 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and Energy and Commerce, 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.

  10. 2025-02-26 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and Energy and Commerce, 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.

  11. 2025-02-26 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  12. 2025-02-26 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

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