Secure Space Act of 2023

Subjects: Science, Technology, Communications, Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies, Internet, web applications, social media, Licensing and registrations, Spacecraft and satellites, Telephone and wireless communication

Summary:  <p><b>Secure Space Act of 2023</b></p> <p>This bill prohibits the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from granting licenses or access to U.S. markets for geostationary or non-geostationary orbit satellite systems or authorizations for related earth-based stations that communicate with those systems to certain producers or providers of communications equipment or services. Specifically, the FCC may not grant a license, market access, or authorization to an entity that produces or provides equipment or a service that the FCC determines poses an unacceptable risk to national security or the security and safety of U.S. persons (e.g., Huawei Technologies Company and China Mobile International USA Inc.).</p> <p>Geostationary satellite systems include satellites that stay in the same position relative to points on the Earth's surface. Non-geostationary satellite systems are comprised of satellites that do not maintain a stationary position but rather move in relation to the Earth's surface. Both types of systems may be used to provide broadband and other telecommunications services.</p>

<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 675 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 675

To amend the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act of 2019 to 
prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from granting a license 
or United States market access for a non-geostationary orbit satellite 
   system if the license or grant of market access would be held or 
     controlled by an entity that produces or provides any covered 
communications equipment or service or an affiliate of such an entity, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 31, 2023

Mr. Pallone (for himself and Mrs. Rodgers of Washington) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                                Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act of 2019 to 
prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from granting a license 
or United States market access for a non-geostationary orbit satellite 
   system if the license or grant of market access would be held or 
     controlled by an entity that produces or provides any covered 
communications equipment or service or an affiliate of such an entity, 
                        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 ``Secure Space Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON GRANT OF CERTAIN SATELLITE LICENSES OR UNITED 
              STATES MARKET ACCESS.

    (a) In General.--The Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act 
of 2019 (47 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating sections 10 and 11 as sections 11 and 
        12, respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after section 9 the following:

``SEC. 10. PROHIBITION ON GRANT OF CERTAIN SATELLITE LICENSES OR UNITED 
              STATES MARKET ACCESS.

    ``The Commission may not grant a license for, or a petition for a 
declaratory ruling to access the United States market using, a non-
geostationary orbit satellite system (as defined in section 25.103 of 
title 47, Code of Federal Regulations (or any successor regulation)), 
if such license or grant of market access would be held or controlled 
by--
            ``(1) an entity that produces or provides any covered 
        communications equipment or service; or
            ``(2) an affiliate (as defined in section 3 of the 
        Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 153)) of an entity 
        described in paragraph (1).''.
    (b) Applicability.--Section 10 of the Secure and Trusted 
Communications Networks Act of 2019, as added by subsection (a), shall 
apply with respect to the grant of a license or petition on or after 
the date of the enactment of this Act.
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