[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
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[H.R. 3919 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.3919

                    One Hundred Seventeenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE FIRST SESSION

           Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday,
         the fourth day of January, two thousand and twenty-one


                                 An Act


 
     To ensure that the Federal Communications Commission prohibits 
 authorization of radio frequency devices that pose a national security 
                                  risk.

    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 ``Secure Equipment Act of 2021''.
SEC. 2. UPDATES TO EQUIPMENT AUTHORIZATION PROCESS OF FEDERAL 
COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION.
    (a) Rulemaking.--
        (1) In general.--Not later than 1 year after the date of the 
    enactment of this Act, the Commission shall adopt rules in the 
    proceeding initiated in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in the 
    matter of Protecting Against National Security Threats to the 
    Communications Supply Chain through the Equipment Authorization 
    Program (ET Docket No. 21-232; FCC 21-73; adopted June 17, 2021), 
    in accordance with paragraph (2), to update the equipment 
    authorization procedures of the Commission.
        (2) Updates required.--In the rules adopted under paragraph 
    (1), the Commission shall clarify that the Commission will no 
    longer review or approve any application for equipment 
    authorization for equipment that is on the list of covered 
    communications equipment or services published by the Commission 
    under section 2(a) of the Secure and Trusted Communications 
    Networks Act of 2019 (47 U.S.C. 1601(a)).
        (3) Applicability.--
            (A) In general.--In the rules adopted under paragraph (1), 
        the Commission may not provide for review or revocation of any 
        equipment authorization granted before the date on which such 
        rules are adopted on the basis of the equipment being on the 
        list described in paragraph (2).
            (B) Rule of construction.--Nothing in this section may be 
        construed to prohibit the Commission, other than in the rules 
        adopted under paragraph (1), from--
                (i) examining the necessity of review or revocation of 
            any equipment authorization on the basis of the equipment 
            being on the list described in paragraph (2); or
                (ii) adopting rules providing for any such review or 
            revocation.
    (b) Definition.--In this section, the term ``Commission'' means the 
Federal Communications Commission.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.