[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3692 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3692

    To direct the Federal Communications Commission to evaluate and 
consider the impact of the telecommunications network equipment supply 
 chain on the deployment of universal service, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 17, 2022

Mr. Hickenlooper (for himself, Mr. Moran, Mr. Tester, and Mrs. Capito) 
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 direct the Federal Communications Commission to evaluate and 
consider the impact of the telecommunications network equipment supply 
 chain on the deployment of universal service, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Network Equipment Transparency Act'' 
or the ``NET Act''.

SEC. 2. TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPLY CHAIN CONSIDERATION.

     Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (47 U.S.C. 1302) 
is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (e); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (c) the following:
    ``(d) Status of Telecommunications Supply Chain.--As part of the 
inquiry required by subsection (b), the Commission shall, to the extent 
that data is available, determine whether a lack of network equipment 
significantly impacted the deployment of advanced telecommunications 
capability during the applicable year.''.
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