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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1 |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 503 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To direct the Federal Communications Commission to evaluate and consider |
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| 6 | 6 | | the impact of the telecommunications network equipment supply chain |
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| 7 | 7 | | on the deployment of universal service, and for other purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 9 | 9 | | FEBRUARY10, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mr. H |
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| 11 | 11 | | ICKENLOOPER (for himself, Mr. MORAN, Mrs. CAPITO, and Mr. |
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| 12 | 12 | | P |
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| 13 | 13 | | ETERS) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred |
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| 14 | 14 | | to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation |
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| 15 | 15 | | A BILL |
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| 16 | 16 | | To direct the Federal Communications Commission to evalu- |
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| 17 | 17 | | ate and consider the impact of the telecommunications |
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| 18 | 18 | | network equipment supply chain on the deployment of |
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| 19 | 19 | | universal service, and for other purposes. |
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| 20 | 20 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 21 | 21 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 22 | 22 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 23 | 23 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Network Equipment 4 |
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| 24 | 24 | | Transparency Act’’ or the ‘‘NET Act’’. 5 |
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| 27 | 27 | | •S 503 IS |
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| 28 | 28 | | SEC. 2. TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPLY CHAIN CONSIDER-1 |
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| 29 | 29 | | ATION. 2 |
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| 30 | 30 | | (a) I |
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| 31 | 31 | | NGENERAL.—Section 13(b) of the Communica-3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | tions Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 163(b)) is amended— 4 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (1) by redesignating paragraphs (3), (4), and 5 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (5) as paragraphs (4), (5), and (6), respectively; and 6 |
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| 35 | 35 | | (2) by inserting after paragraph (2) the fol-7 |
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| 36 | 36 | | lowing: 8 |
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| 37 | 37 | | ‘‘(3) assess, to the extent that data is available 9 |
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| 38 | 38 | | to the Commission, how the availability of network 10 |
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| 39 | 39 | | equipment may have impacted the deployment of ad-11 |
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| 40 | 40 | | vanced telecommunications capability during the ap-12 |
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| 41 | 41 | | plicable reporting period;’’. 13 |
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| 42 | 42 | | (b) R |
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| 43 | 43 | | ULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in the 14 |
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| 44 | 44 | | amendments made by subsection (a) shall be construed to 15 |
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| 45 | 45 | | require any provider of advanced telecommunications ca-16 |
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| 46 | 46 | | pability to provide the Federal Communications Commis-17 |
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| 47 | 47 | | sion more information than was required for the purpose 18 |
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| 48 | 48 | | of section 13 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 19 |
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| 49 | 49 | | U.S.C. 163) as in effect on the day before the date of 20 |
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| 50 | 50 | | enactment of this Act. 21 |
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| 51 | 51 | | (c) T |
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| 52 | 52 | | ECHNICAL ANDCONFORMINGAMENDMENTS.— 22 |
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| 53 | 53 | | Section 13 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 23 |
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| 54 | 54 | | 163), as amended by subsection (a), is amended— 24 |
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| 55 | 55 | | (1) in subsection (b)— 25 |
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| 58 | 58 | | •S 503 IS |
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| 59 | 59 | | (A) in paragraph (5), as so redesignated, 1 |
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| 60 | 60 | | by striking ‘‘(3)’’ and inserting ‘‘(4)’’; and 2 |
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| 61 | 61 | | (B) in paragraph (6), as so redesignated, 3 |
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| 62 | 62 | | by striking ‘‘(4)’’ and inserting ‘‘(5)’’; 4 |
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| 63 | 63 | | (2) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘(b)(4)’’ and 5 |
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| 64 | 64 | | inserting ‘‘(b)(5)’’; and 6 |
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| 65 | 65 | | (3) in subsection (d)(3), by striking ‘‘(b)(3)’’ 7 |
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| 66 | 66 | | and inserting ‘‘(b)(4)’’. 8 |
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