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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 906
To direct the Federal Communications Commission to publish a list of entities
that hold authorizations, licenses, or other grants of authority issued
by the Commission and that have certain foreign ownership, and for
other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY31, 2025
Mr. W
ITTMAN(for himself, Mr. KEAN, Mr. KHANNA, and Ms. CASTORof
Florida) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Energy and Commerce
A BILL
To direct the Federal Communications Commission to pub-
lish a list of entities that hold authorizations, licenses,
or other grants of authority issued by the Commission
and that have certain foreign ownership, 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 ‘‘Foreign Adversary 4
Communications Transparency Act’’. 5
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SEC. 2. LIST OF ENTITIES HOLDING FCC AUTHORIZATIONS, 1
LICENSES, OR OTHER GRANTS OF AUTHOR-2
ITY AND HAVING CERTAIN FOREIGN OWNER-3
SHIP. 4
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Not later than 120 days after the 5
date of the enactment of this Act, the Commission shall 6
publish on the internet website of the Commission a list 7
of each entity— 8
(1) that holds a license issued by the Commis-9
sion pursuant to— 10
(A) section 309(j) of the Communications 11
Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 309(j)); or 12
(B) the Act of May 27, 1921 (47 U.S.C. 13
34 et seq.; commonly known as the ‘‘Cable 14
Landing Licensing Act’’) and Executive Order 15
10530 (3 U.S.C. 301 note; relating to the per-16
formance of certain functions vested in or sub-17
ject to the approval of the President); and 18
(2) with respect to which— 19
(A) a covered entity holds an equity or vot-20
ing interest that is required to be reported to 21
the Commission under the ownership rules of 22
the Commission; or 23
(B) an appropriate national security agen-24
cy has determined that a covered entity exerts 25
control, regardless of whether such covered enti-26
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ty holds an equity or voting interest as de-1
scribed in subparagraph (A). 2
(b) R
ULEMAKING.— 3
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than 18 months 4
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 5
Commission shall issue rules to obtain information 6
to identify each entity— 7
(A) that holds any authorization, license, 8
or other grant of authority issued by the Com-9
mission (other than a license described in sub-10
section (a)(1)); and 11
(B) with respect to which a covered entity 12
holds an equity or voting interest that is re-13
quired to be reported to the Commission under 14
the ownership rules of the Commission. 15
(2) P
LACEMENT ON LIST .—Not later than 1 16
year after the Commission issues the rules required 17
by paragraph (1), the Commission shall place each 18
entity described in such paragraph on the list pub-19
lished under subsection (a). 20
(c) P
APERWORKREDUCTIONACTEXEMPTION.—A 21
collection of information conducted or sponsored by the 22
Commission to implement this section does not constitute 23
a collection of information for the purposes of subchapter 24
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I of chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code (commonly 1
referred to as the ‘‘Paperwork Reduction Act’’). 2
(d) A
NNUALUPDATES.—The Commission shall, not 3
less frequently than annually, update the list published 4
under subsection (a), including with respect to any entity 5
required to be placed on such list by subsection (b)(2). 6
(e) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 7
(1) A
PPROPRIATE NATIONAL SECURITY AGEN -8
CY.—The term ‘‘appropriate national security agen-9
cy’’ has the meaning given such term in section 9 10
of the Secure and Trusted Communications Net-11
works Act of 2019 (47 U.S.C. 1608). 12
(2) C
OMMISSION.—The term ‘‘Commission’’ 13
means the Federal Communications Commission. 14
(3) C
OVERED COUNTRY .—The term ‘‘covered 15
country’’ means a country specified in section 16
4872(f)(2) of title 10, United States Code. 17
(4) C
OVERED ENTITY.—The term ‘‘covered en-18
tity’’ means— 19
(A) the government of a covered country; 20
(B) an entity organized under the laws of 21
a covered country; and 22
(C) a subsidiary of an entity described in 23
subparagraph (B), regardless of whether the 24
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subsidiary is organized under the laws of a cov-1
ered country. 2
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