[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2474 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2474

 To prohibit the use of funds made available under the American Rescue 
Plan Act of 2021 to purchase communications equipment or services that 
                     pose a national security risk.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 26, 2021

Mr. Cotton (for himself and Mr. Warner) introduced the following bill; 
    which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, 
                      Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit the use of funds made available under the American Rescue 
Plan Act of 2021 to purchase communications equipment or services 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 ``American Telecommunications Security 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS TO PURCHASE COMMUNICATIONS 
              EQUIPMENT OR SERVICES POSING NATIONAL SECURITY RISK.

    (a) In General.--The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 
117-2; 135 Stat. 4) is amended by adding at the end the following:

      ``TITLE XII--NATIONAL SECURITY RESTRICTIONS ON USE OF FUNDS

``SEC. 12001. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS TO PURCHASE COMMUNICATIONS 
              EQUIPMENT OR SERVICES POSING NATIONAL SECURITY RISK.

    ``None of the funds made available under this Act or an amendment 
made by this Act may be used to purchase any covered communications 
equipment or service, as defined in section 9 of the Secure and Trusted 
Communications Networks Act of 2019 (47 U.S.C. 1608).''.
    (b) Technical and Conforming Amendment.--The table of contents in 
section 2 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 is amended by adding 
at the end the following:

      ``TITLE XII--NATIONAL SECURITY RESTRICTIONS ON USE OF FUNDS

``Sec. 12001. Prohibition on use of funds to purchase communications 
                            equipment or services posing national 
                            security risk.''.
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