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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 1766
To amend the National Telecommunications and Information Administration
Organization Act to establish the Office of Policy Development and
Cybersecurity, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH3, 2025
Mr. O
BERNOLTE(for himself and Ms. MCCLELLAN) introduced the following
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
A BILL
To amend the National Telecommunications and Information
Administration Organization Act to establish the Office
of Policy Development and Cybersecurity, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘NTIA Policy and Cy-4
bersecurity Coordination Act’’. 5
SEC. 2. POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND CYBERSECURITY. 6
(a) O
FFICE OFPOLICYDEVELOPMENT AND CYBER-7
SECURITY.—Part A of the National Telecommunications 8
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and Information Administration Organization Act (47 1
U.S.C. 901 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the 2
following: 3
‘‘SEC. 106. OFFICE OF POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND CYBER-4
SECURITY. 5
‘‘(a) E
STABLISHMENT.—There shall be within the 6
NTIA an office to be known as the Office of Policy Devel-7
opment and Cybersecurity (in this section referred to as 8
the ‘Office’). 9
‘‘(b) A
SSOCIATEADMINISTRATOR.—The head of the 10
Office shall be an Associate Administrator for Policy De-11
velopment and Cybersecurity (in this section referred to 12
as the ‘Associate Administrator’), who shall report to the 13
Assistant Secretary. 14
‘‘(c) D
UTIES.— 15
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—The Associate Adminis-16
trator shall oversee and conduct national commu-17
nications and information policy analysis and devel-18
opment for the internet and communications tech-19
nologies. 20
‘‘(2) P
ARTICULAR DUTIES .—In carrying out 21
paragraph (1), the Associate Administrator shall— 22
‘‘(A) develop, analyze, and advocate for 23
market-based policies that promote innovation, 24
competition, consumer access, digital inclusion, 25
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workforce development, and economic growth in 1
the communications, media, and technology 2
markets; 3
‘‘(B) conduct studies, as delegated by the 4
Assistant Secretary or required by Congress, on 5
how individuals in the United States access and 6
use the internet, wireline and wireless teleph-7
ony, mass media, other digital services, and 8
video services; 9
‘‘(C) coordinate transparent, consensus- 10
based, multistakeholder processes to create 11
guidance for and to support the development 12
and implementation of cybersecurity and pri-13
vacy policies with respect to the internet and 14
other communications networks; 15
‘‘(D) promote increased collaboration be-16
tween security researchers and providers of 17
communications services and software system 18
developers; 19
‘‘(E) perform such duties as the Assistant 20
Secretary considers appropriate relating to the 21
program for preventing future vulnerabilities es-22
tablished under section 8(a) of the Secure and 23
Trusted Communications Networks Act of 2019 24
(47 U.S.C. 1607(a)); 25
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‘‘(F) advocate for policies that promote the 1
security and resilience to cybersecurity incidents 2
of communications networks while fostering in-3
novation, including policies that promote secure 4
communications network supply chains; 5
‘‘(G) at the direction of the Assistant Sec-6
retary, present security of the digital economy 7
and infrastructure and cybersecurity policy ef-8
forts before the Commission, Congress, and 9
elsewhere; 10
‘‘(H) provide advice and assistance to the 11
Assistant Secretary in carrying out the policy 12
responsibilities of the NTIA with respect to cy-13
bersecurity policy matters, including the evalua-14
tion of the impact of cybersecurity matters 15
pending before the Commission, other Federal 16
agencies, and Congress; 17
‘‘(I) in addition to the duties described in 18
subparagraph (H), perform such other duties 19
regarding the policy responsibilities of the 20
NTIA with respect to cybersecurity policy mat-21
ters as the Assistant Secretary considers appro-22
priate; 23
‘‘(J) develop policies to accelerate innova-24
tion and commercialization with respect to ad-25
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vances in technological understanding of com-1
munications technologies; 2
‘‘(K) identify barriers to trust, security, in-3
novation, and commercialization with respect to 4
communications technologies, including access 5
to capital and other resources, and ways to 6
overcome such barriers; 7
‘‘(L) provide public access to relevant data, 8
research, and technical assistance on innovation 9
and commercialization with respect to commu-10
nications technologies, consistent with the pro-11
tection of classified information; 12
‘‘(M) strengthen collaboration on and co-13
ordination of policies relating to innovation and 14
commercialization with respect to communica-15
tions technologies, including policies focused on 16
the needs of small businesses and rural commu-17
nities— 18
‘‘(i) within the Department of Com-19
merce; 20
‘‘(ii) between the Department of Com-21
merce and State government agencies, as 22
appropriate; and 23
‘‘(iii) between the Department of 24
Commerce and the Commission or any 25
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other Federal agency the Assistant Sec-1
retary determines to be necessary; and 2
‘‘(N) solicit and consider feedback from 3
small and rural communications service pro-4
viders, as appropriate.’’. 5
(b) T
RANSITIONALRULES.— 6
(1) R
EDESIGNATION OF ASSOCIATE ADMINIS -7
TRATOR; CONTINUATION OF SERVICE .— 8
(A) R
EDESIGNATION.—The position of As-9
sociate Administrator for Policy Analysis and 10
Development at the NTIA is hereby redesig-11
nated as the position of Associate Adminis-12
trator for Policy Development and Cybersecu-13
rity. 14
(B) C
ONTINUATION OF SERVICE .—The in-15
dividual serving as Associate Administrator for 16
Policy Analysis and Development at the NTIA 17
on the date of the enactment of this Act shall 18
become, as of such date, the Associate Adminis-19
trator for Policy Development and Cybersecu-20
rity. 21
(2) NTIA
DEFINED.—In this subsection, the 22
term ‘‘NTIA’’ means the National Telecommuni-23
cations and Information Administration. 24
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