Dave Min (D-CA)
Digital Coast Reauthorization Act of 2025
A Democratic bill with 7 Republican cosponsors · See all 13 cosponsors
Last activity — Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 310.
Cleared committee, waiting for its first floor vote
A committee approved it and it is on the calendar of the chamber it started in.
This is further than most bills get, and still no promise of a vote: the calendar is a queue, and the majority leadership decides what is called. A bill can sit here until the Congress ends.
Its path through Congress
- Introduced
- On Calendar
What this bill would do
This bill, titled the "Digital Coast Reauthorization Act of 2025," aims to reauthorize the Digital Coast Act. It proposes specific amendments to Section 4 of the existing Digital Coast Act. These changes include modifying language regarding data accessibility and expanding the type of data included. Finally, the bill extends a specific date from 2025 to 2030.
Yes
- Scored +2
Does this make what the government does easier for the public to see?
The bill increases transparency by making coastal data fully and freely available to the public.
- Scored +1
Would business owners be better off under this?
Increased data accessibility may assist businesses involved in infrastructure and utility planning.
- Scored +1
Does this better protect public land such as parks and forests?
The bill enhances public access to data regarding underground infrastructure and utilities.
The opposite
No question was scored the opposite.
Who it would affect, and how
Potential Positive Impacts for People
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Increased Data Accessibility: By inserting the phrase "and fully and freely available" into subsection (b)(1), the bill ensures that data is not just readily accessible but also completely free to the public.
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Expanded Information Access: The amendment to subsection (d)(3)(D) adds "data related to underground infrastructure and subsurface utilities," which provides more comprehensive information to those using the data.
Potential Negative Impacts for People
- No negative impacts are explicitly stated in the provided text.
Groups and Interests Ranking
Every group the model scored this bill for, from -10 to +10. Tap or hover a score for the reason it gave.
- Governance And Ideology
- Does this make what the government does easier for the public to see? — The bill increases transparency by making coastal data fully and freely available to the public.
- Demographic And Interest Groups
- Would business owners be better off under this? — Increased data accessibility may assist businesses involved in infrastructure and utility planning.
- Environment Energy And Infrastructure
- Does this better protect public land such as parks and forests? — The bill enhances public access to data regarding underground infrastructure and utilities.
- 10/31/2025
- Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-358.
- Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 310.
- 10/8/2025
- 2 Cosponsors added.
- 9/17/2025
- Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Discharged
- Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
- 9/10/2025
- 2 Cosponsors added.
- 9/3/2025
- Subcommittee Hearings Held
- 8/29/2025
- Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries.
- 7/17/2025
- 2 Cosponsors added.
- 7/14/2025
- 2 Cosponsors added.
- 7/10/2025
- 2 Cosponsors added.
- 6/30/2025
- Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
- 3 Cosponsors added.
- Introduced in House
Earl CarterRepublican · Georgia
Mike EzellRepublican · Mississippi
Sarah ElfrethDemocrat · Maryland
Jared HuffmanDemocrat · California
Marcy KapturDemocrat · Ohio
Raja KrishnamoorthiDemocrat · Illinois
Jennifer KiggansRepublican · Virginia
Kevin MullinDemocrat · California
Jimmy PanettaDemocrat · California
Aumua Amata RadewagenRepublican · American Samoa
John RutherfordRepublican · Florida
Maria SalazarRepublican · Florida
Robert WittmanRepublican · Virginia