What a yes vote endorsed
License to Drill Act
What this does
The bill amends Section 35(d) of the Mineral Leasing Act, which governs the fee the Bureau of Land Management collects for each new application for a permit to drill for oil and gas. It extends that fee through 2037, a fee that under current law was set to stop being collected after 2026. It also directs that, for each of fiscal years 2027 through 2037, all of the fees collected be transferred to the BLM Permit Processing Improvement Fund.
Passed the House by voice vote
How we know · 4 sourced claims
- The bill amends Section 35(d) of the Mineral Leasing Act, codified at 30 U.S.C. 191(d).Source: Sec. 2
- It governs the fee the Bureau of Land Management collects for each new application for a permit to drill for oil and gas.Source: Sec. 2 (heading, BLM oil and gas permit processing fee); title
- It extends collection of that fee through 2037, where current law set collection to stop after 2026, by striking 2026 and inserting 2037.Source: Sec. 2(1); Sec. 2(3)
- For each of fiscal years 2027 through 2037, all of the fees collected are transferred to the BLM Permit Processing Improvement Fund.Source: Sec. 2(2)
Reported lobbying
At least
5
organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing.
A floor, not a total. Those organizations were counted by the client name on 10 quarterly reports filed by 5 registered lobbying firms in 2026 Q1 and 2026 Q2. The disclosure form takes a free text description of the issue, so an organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. They carry no per-bill dollar figure and no position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
The organizations named
- AMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE
- CONOCOPHILLIPS
- INDEPENDENT PETROLEUM ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
- AMERICAN EXPLORATION & PRODUCTION COUNCIL
- CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.
Listed as filed. They are every client name on the filings counted here.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1 and 2026 Q2. The pull came up 2 short in 2025 Q4 and 7 short in 2026 Q2 against the register's own count, so those quarters are the filings posted rather than every one filed. 2026 Q3 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.