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Amends the Digital Coast Act to make the program's coastal data fully and freely available, add underground infrastructure data, limit trainings to technical instruction, and extend the program through 2030.

Official title: A bill to amend the Digital Coast Act to improve the acquisition, integration, and accessibility of data of the Digital Coast program and to extend the program.

Next stop House: awaiting action
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Received 03-MAR-2026
Senate
Introduced 10-JUL-2025
Referred 10-JUL-2025
Approved by committee 21-OCT-2025
Reported 30-JAN-2026
On the calendar 30-JAN-2026
Passed 26-FEB-2026
Key points
  • Adds "fully and freely available" to the existing requirement that program data be readily accessible.
  • Adds data related to underground infrastructure and subsurface utilities to the data the program covers.
  • Limits program trainings to technical instruction in using the data and tools the program provides.
  • Changes the program's end date in the authorization section from 2025 to 2030.
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Official CRS summary

Current. The Congressional Research Service's summary covers the bill's latest wording (Passed Senate, 26-FEB-2026).

CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov
Committee referrals (1) Policy area

Science, Technology, Communications

Sponsor Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) Cosponsors · 2
■ 2 R
2 Republicans
congress.gov page Engrossed in Senate (26-FEB-2026) Reported to Senate (30-JAN-2026) Introduced in Senate (10-JUL-2025)