[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[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.