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Creates a single, government‑wide fee schedule for processing certain agency forms. The General Services Administration (GSA) must set uniform, competitively neutral, cost‑based fees, with narrow exceptions for clear public‑benefit situations and to encourage broadband deployment. All executive agencies must adopt the same fees by regulation. GSA must publish the schedule within 30 days of enactment; agencies must implement it within 120 days after GSA issues it. Fees collected can only be spent if Congress appropriates them, and this new fee authority overrides conflicting fee statutes for the covered forms.
Redesignates the existing subsection (d) of Section 6409 as subsection (e) and inserts a new subsection (d) titled 'Common fee schedule' into Section 6409 of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (47 U.S.C. 1455).
The Administrator of General Services shall establish a uniform schedule of fees applicable to the processing of the forms described under subsections (b)(2) and (c)(3).
The fee schedule must be based on the direct costs incurred by an agency in processing the covered forms and must be competitively neutral compared to fees for processing forms for similar use of Federal buildings or property.
The Administrator of General Services may establish exceptions to the uniform fee schedule that are competitively neutral with respect to categories of individuals or entities; that consider the public benefit of granting an easement, right-of-way, or lease under subsection (b)(1) or entering into a contract for placement of a communications facility under subsection (c)(1); or that are in the interest of expanding broadband internet access service deployment.
The head of each executive agency must adopt by regulation fees that correspond to the GSA-established schedule and must adopt any exceptions established by the Administrator. Exceptions by an executive agency may be granted only on a case-by-case basis.
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Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on 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.
Introduced February 27, 2025 by Gary James Palmer · Last progress February 27, 2025
Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 119-488, Part I.
Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 49 - 0.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote.