[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
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[H.R. 805 Reported in House (RH)]

                                                 Union Calendar No. 130
114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 805

                          [Report No. 114-175]

      To prohibit the National Telecommunications and Information 
  Administration from relinquishing responsibility over the Internet 
 domain name system until the Comptroller General of the United States 
 submits to Congress a report on the role of the NTIA with respect to 
                              such system.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 5, 2015

  Mr. Shimkus (for himself, Mr. Barton, Mr. Cramer, Mrs. Ellmers, Mr. 
   Lance, Mr. McKinley, Mr. Farenthold, Mr. Nugent, Mr. Bucshon, Mr. 
Kline, Mr. Walden, Mr. Rokita, Mr. Latta, and Mr. Long) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                                Commerce

                             June 23, 2015

              Additional sponsors: Mr. Yoho and Mr. Olson

                             June 23, 2015

Reported with amendments, committed to the Committee of the Whole House 
          on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]
    [For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on 
                           February 5, 2015]


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                                 A BILL


 
      To prohibit the National Telecommunications and Information 
  Administration from relinquishing responsibility over the Internet 
 domain name system until the Comptroller General of the United States 
 submits to Congress a report on the role of the NTIA with respect to 
                              such system.


 


    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Domain Openness Through Continued 
Oversight Matters Act of 2015'' or the ``DOTCOM Act of 2015''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENTS FOR IANA STEWARDSHIP TRANSITION.

    (a) In General.--Until the date that is 30 legislative days after 
the submission to Congress of the report described in subsection (b), 
the Assistant Secretary may not permit the NTIA's role in the 
performance of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority functions to 
terminate, lapse, be cancelled, or otherwise cease to be in effect.
    (b) Report Described.--The report described in this subsection is a 
report that contains--
            (1) the proposal relating to the transition of the NTIA's 
        stewardship of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority 
        functions that was developed in a process convened by ICANN at 
        the request of the NTIA; and
            (2) a certification by the Assistant Secretary that--
                    (A) such proposal--
                            (i) supports and enhances the 
                        multistakeholder model of Internet governance;
                            (ii) maintains the security, stability, and 
                        resiliency of the Internet domain name system;
                            (iii) meets the needs and expectations of 
                        the global customers and partners of the 
                        Internet Assigned Numbers Authority services;
                            (iv) maintains the openness of the 
                        Internet; and
                            (v) does not replace the role of the NTIA 
                        with a government-led or intergovernmental 
                        organization solution; and
                    (B) the required changes to ICANN's bylaws 
                contained in the final report of ICANN's Cross 
                Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN 
                Accountability and the changes to ICANN's bylaws 
                required by ICANN's IANA Stewardship Transition 
                Coordination Group have been adopted.
    (c) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Assistant secretary.--The term ``Assistant Secretary'' 
        means the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications 
        and Information.
            (2) ICANN.--The term ``ICANN'' means the Internet 
        Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
            (3) Legislative day.--The term ``legislative day'' does not 
        include Saturdays, Sundays, legal public holidays, or days 
        either House of Congress is adjourned for more than 3 days 
        during a session of Congress.
            (4) NTIA.--The term ``NTIA'' means the National 
        Telecommunications and Information Administration.
            Amend the title so as to read: ``A bill to provide for 
        certain requirements relating to the Internet Assigned Numbers 
        Authority stewardship transition.''.
                                                 Union Calendar No. 130

114th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                               H. R. 805

                          [Report No. 114-175]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

      To prohibit the National Telecommunications and Information 
  Administration from relinquishing responsibility over the Internet 
 domain name system until the Comptroller General of the United States 
 submits to Congress a report on the role of the NTIA with respect to 
                              such system.

_______________________________________________________________________

                             June 23, 2015

Reported with amendments, committed to the Committee of the Whole House 
          on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed