# 117-hr-5315: Drone Infrastructure Inspection Grant Act

117-hr-5315, Drone Infrastructure Inspection Grant Act, is a 117th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Stanton, Greg [D-AZ-4] (D-AZ); status Received in the Senate. (as of 2025-11-18).

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## Facts
- Bill: 117-hr-5315
- Congress: 117
- Title: Drone Infrastructure Inspection Grant Act
- Status: Received in the Senate.
- Introduced: 2021-09-21
- Sponsor: Rep. Stanton, Greg [D-AZ-4] (D-AZ)
- Cosponsors: 12
- Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2025-11-18

## Summary

Drone Infrastructure Inspection Grant Act This bill establishes programs within the Department of Transportation (DOT) to support the use of drones and other small, unmanned aircraft systems when inspecting, repairing, or constructing road infrastructure, electric grid infrastructure, water infrastructure, or other critical infrastructure. Specifically, DOT must award grants to state, tribal, and local governments; metropolitan planning organizations; or regional groups of those entities to purchase or otherwise use drones to increase efficiency, reduce costs, improve worker safety, and reduce carbon emissions when carrying out inspections, repairs, and construction. Grant recipients must use domestically manufactured drones that are made by companies not subject to Chinese influence or control. DOT must also award grants to certain institutions of higher education for training students for careers using drones and related technologies.

## Cosponsors (12)

- Rep. Graves, Garret [R-LA-6] (R-LA), 2021-09-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26] (D-CA), 2021-10-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Lawson, Al, Jr. [D-FL-5] (D-FL), 2021-10-19T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Fitzpatrick, Brian K. [R-PA-1] (R-PA), 2021-10-28T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Davis, Rodney [R-IL-13] (R-IL), 2021-10-28T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Bacon, Don [R-NE-2] (R-NE), 2021-12-01T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Titus, Dina [D-NV-1] (D-NV), 2022-03-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Payne, Donald M., Jr. [D-NJ-10] (D-NJ), 2022-04-14T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Davids, Sharice [D-KS-3] (D-KS), 2022-04-26T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Moulton, Seth [D-MA-6] (D-MA), 2022-04-26T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Wilson, Frederica S. [D-FL-24] (D-FL), 2022-04-28T00:00:00.000Z
- Resident Commissioner González-Colón, Jenniffer [R-PR-At Large] (R-PR), 2022-09-09T00:00:00.000Z

## Votes

| Date | Chamber | Question | Result | Yea | Nay |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2022-09-13T00:00:00.000Z | house | On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended | Passed | 308 | 110 |

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## Sources
- [117-hr-5315 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5315)

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