H.R. 1731 explained · 119th Congress · Pending in Congress
Standard FEES Act
Cosponsors: 2 (2 D, 0 R) · per Congress.gov, 2026-10-09
Introduced: 2025-02-27
Latest action (2026-02-04): Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 119-488, Part I.
What H.R. 1731 does, in plain terms
Standard Fees to Expedite Evaluation and Streamlining Act or the Standard FEES Act This bill requires the General Services Administration (GSA) to establish, and federal agencies to adopt, a uniform schedule of fees for applications to place, modify, or maintain communications facilities in, over, or on federally owned buildings and property. The fees established by the GSA must be competitively neutral with respect to other application fees for similar uses of federal buildings and property and based on the direct and actual costs of processing such applications. The GSA may establish exceptions to the fee schedule to be granted by agencies on a case-by-case basis, provided the exceptions are competitively neutral with respect to the categories of individuals or entities granted exceptions and meet certain other requirements. Agencies may only use fees collected to cover the costs of processing applications, and only to the extent that the funds are provided in advance in appropriations acts.
Official summary by the Congressional Research Service, via Congress.gov.
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