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116TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4500 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JANUARY 9, 2020 

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, 

and Transportation 

AN ACT 

To direct the Assistant Secretary for Communications and 

Information to take certain actions to enhance the representation of the United States and promote United 

States leadership in communications standards-setting 

bodies, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Promoting United 

3 States Wireless Leadership Act of 2019’’. 

4 SEC. 2. REPRESENTATION AND LEADERSHIP OF UNITED 

5 STATES IN COMMUNICATIONS STANDARDS6 SETTING BODIES. 

7 (a) IN GENERAL.—In order to enhance the represen8 tation of the United States and promote United States 

9 leadership in standards-setting bodies that set standards 

10 for 5G networks and for future generations of wireless 

11 communications networks, the Assistant Secretary shall, 

12 in consultation with the National Institute of Standards 

13 and Technology— 

14 (1) equitably encourage participation by compa15 nies and a wide variety of relevant stakeholders, but 

16 not including any company or relevant stakeholder 

17 that the Assistant Secretary has determined to be 

18 not trusted, (to the extent such standards-setting 

19 bodies allow such stakeholders to participate) in 

20 such standards-setting bodies; and 

21 (2) equitably offer technical expertise to compa22 nies and a wide variety of relevant stakeholders, but 

23 not including any company or relevant stakeholder 

24 that the Assistant Secretary has determined to be 

25 not trusted, (to the extent such standards-setting 


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1 bodies allow such stakeholders to participate) to fa2 cilitate such participation. 

3 (b) STANDARDS-SETTING BODIES.—The standards4 setting bodies referred to in subsection (a) include— 

5 (1) the International Organization for Stand6 ardization; 

7 (2) the voluntary standards-setting bodies that 

8 develop protocols for wireless devices and other 

9 equipment, such as the 3GPP and the Institute of 

10 Electrical and Electronics Engineers; and 

11 (3) any standards-setting body accredited by 

12 the American National Standards Institute or Alli13 ance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions. 

14 (c) BRIEFING.—Not later than 60 days after the date 

15 of the enactment of this Act, the Assistant Secretary shall 

16 brief the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the 

17 House of Representatives and the Committee on Com18 merce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate on a 

19 strategy to carry out subsection (a). 

20 (d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

21 (1) 3GPP.—The term ‘‘3GPP’’ means the 3rd 

22 Generation Partnership Project. 

23 (2) 5G NETWORK.—The term ‘‘5G network’’ 

24 means a fifth-generation mobile network as de25 scribed by 3GPP Release 15 or higher. 


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1 (3) ASSISTANT SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Assist2 ant Secretary’’ means the Assistant Secretary of 

3 Commerce for Communications and Information. 

4 (4) CLOUD COMPUTING.—The term ‘‘cloud 

5 computing’’ has the meaning given the term in Spe6 cial Publication 800–145 of the National Institute of 

7 Standards and Technology, entitled ‘‘The NIST Def8 inition of Cloud Computing’’, published in Sep9 tember 2011, or any successor publication. 

10 (5) COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK.—The term 

11 ‘‘communications network’’ means any of the fol12 lowing: 

13 (A) A system enabling the transmission, 

14 between or among points specified by the user, 

15 of information of the user’s choosing. 

16 (B) Cloud computing resources. 

17 (C) A network or system used to access 

18 cloud computing resources. 

19 (6) NOT TRUSTED.—The term ‘‘not trusted’’ 

20 means, with respect to a company or stakeholder, 

21 that the company or stakeholder is determined by 

22 the Assistant Secretary to pose a threat to the na23 tional security of the United States. In making such 

24 a determination, the Assistant Secretary shall rely 


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1 solely on one or more of the following determina2 tions: 

3 (A) A specific determination made by any 

4 executive branch interagency body with appro5 priate national security expertise, including the 

6 Federal Acquisition Security Council estab7 lished under section 1322(a) of title 41, United 

8 States Code. 

9 (B) A specific determination made by the 

10 Department of Commerce pursuant to Execu11 tive Order No. 13873 (84 Fed. Reg. 22689; re12 lating to securing the information and commu13 nications technology and services supply chain). 

14 (C) Whether a company or stakeholder 

15 produces or provides covered telecommuni16 cations equipment or services, as defined in sec17 tion 889(f)(3) of the John S. McCain National 

18 Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 

19 (Public Law 115–232; 132 Stat. 1918). 

Passed the House of Representatives January 8, 

2020. 

Attest: CHERYL L. JOHNSON, 

Clerk. 


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