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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 1137
To provide that the Federal Communications Commission may not prevent
a State or Federal correctional facility from utilizing jamming equipment,
and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
MARCH26, 2025
Mr. C
OTTON(for himself, Mr. RISCH, Mr. GRAHAM, Mr. CRAPO, Mr.
L
ANKFORD, Mr. CASSIDY, Mrs. CAPITO, Mrs. HYDE-SMITH, Mr.
H
AGERTY, and Mr. RICKETTS) introduced the following bill; which was
read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation
A BILL
To provide that the Federal Communications Commission
may not prevent a State or Federal correctional facility
from utilizing jamming equipment, and for other pur-
poses.
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 ‘‘Cellphone Jamming 4
Reform Act of 2025’’. 5
SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON FCC AUTHORITY. 6
(a) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section— 7
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(1) the term ‘‘Commission’’ means the Federal 1
Communications Commission; 2
(2) the term ‘‘correctional facility’’ means a jail, 3
prison, penitentiary, or other correctional facility; 4
and 5
(3) the term ‘‘jamming system’’— 6
(A) means a system of radio signal gener-7
ating and processing equipment and antennas 8
designed to disrupt, prevent, interfere with, or 9
jam a wireless communication into, from, or 10
within a correctional facility; and 11
(B) includes the components and 12
functionality of a system described in subpara-13
graph (A), such as— 14
(i) antennas, cabling, and cable ele-15
ments; 16
(ii) the installation, interconnection, 17
and operation of system elements, power 18
levels, and radio frequencies carried on the 19
cables or fed into antennas; 20
(iii) the radiation pattern of the an-21
tennas; and 22
(iv) the location and orientation of the 23
antennas. 24
(b) R
ESTRICTION.— 25
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(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other 1
provision of law or regulation, and subject to para-2
graph (2), the Commission may not prevent a State 3
or Federal correctional facility from operating a 4
jamming system within the correctional facility to 5
prevent, jam, or otherwise interfere with a wireless 6
communication that is sent— 7
(A) to or from a contraband device in the 8
facility; or 9
(B) by or to an individual held in the facil-10
ity. 11
(2) R
EQUIREMENTS.—With respect to a jam-12
ming system described in paragraph (1)— 13
(A) the operation of the system shall be 14
limited to the housing facilities of the correc-15
tional facility in which the system is located; 16
(B) if the correctional facility that operates 17
the system is a State correctional facility, the 18
State that operates the correctional facility 19
shall be responsible for funding the entire cost 20
of the system, including the operation of the 21
system; and 22
(C) the correctional facility that operates 23
the system shall— 24
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(i) before implementing the system, 1
consult with local law enforcement agencies 2
and other public safety officials in the area 3
in which the facility is located; and 4
(ii) submit to the Director of the Bu-5
reau of Prisons a notification regarding 6
that operation. 7
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