IIB 
118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1345 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JULY 26, 2023 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
and Transportation 
AN ACT 
To amend the National Telecommunications and Information 
Administration Organization Act to establish the Office 
of Policy Development and Cybersecurity, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘NTIA Policy and Cy-
bersecurity Coordination Act’’. 
SEC. 2. POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND CYBERSECURITY. 
(a) OFFICE OF POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND CYBER-
SECURITY.—Part A of the National Telecommunications 
and Information Administration Organization Act (47 
U.S.C. 901 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘SEC. 106. OFFICE OF POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND CYBER-
SECURITY. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There shall be within the 
NTIA an office to be known as the Office of Policy Devel-
opment and Cybersecurity (in this section referred to as 
the ‘Office’). 
‘‘(b) ASSOCIATE ADMINISTRATOR.—The head of the 
Office shall be an Associate Administrator for Policy De-
velopment and Cybersecurity (in this section referred to 
as the ‘Associate Administrator’), who shall report to the 
Assistant Secretary. 
‘‘(c) DUTIES.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Associate Adminis-
trator shall oversee and conduct national commu-
nications and information policy analysis and devel-
opment for the internet and communications tech-
nologies. 
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‘‘(2) PARTICULAR
DUTIES.—In carrying out 
paragraph (1), the Associate Administrator shall— 
‘‘(A) develop, analyze, and advocate for 
market-based policies that promote innovation, 
competition, consumer access, digital inclusion, 
workforce development, and economic growth in 
the communications, media, and technology 
markets; 
‘‘(B) conduct studies, as delegated by the 
Assistant Secretary or required by Congress, on 
how individuals in the United States access and 
use the internet, wireline and wireless teleph-
ony, mass media, other digital services, and 
video services; 
‘‘(C) coordinate transparent, consensus- 
based, multistakeholder processes to create 
guidance for and to support the development 
and implementation of cybersecurity and pri-
vacy policies with respect to the internet and 
other communications networks; 
‘‘(D) promote increased collaboration be-
tween security researchers and providers of 
communications services and software system 
developers; 
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‘‘(E) perform such duties as the Assistant 
Secretary considers appropriate relating to the 
program for preventing future vulnerabilities es-
tablished under section 8(a) of the Secure and 
Trusted Communications Networks Act of 2019 
(47 U.S.C. 1607(a)); 
‘‘(F) advocate for policies that promote the 
security and resilience to cybersecurity incidents 
of communications networks while fostering in-
novation, including policies that promote secure 
communications network supply chains; 
‘‘(G) at the direction of the Assistant Sec-
retary, present security of the digital economy 
and infrastructure and cybersecurity policy ef-
forts before the Commission, Congress, and 
elsewhere; 
‘‘(H) provide advice and assistance to the 
Assistant Secretary in carrying out the policy 
responsibilities of the NTIA with respect to cy-
bersecurity policy matters, including the evalua-
tion of the impact of cybersecurity matters 
pending before the Commission, other Federal 
agencies, and Congress; 
‘‘(I) in addition to the duties described in 
subparagraph (H), perform such other duties 
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regarding the policy responsibilities of the 
NTIA with respect to cybersecurity policy mat-
ters as the Assistant Secretary considers appro-
priate; 
‘‘(J) develop policies to accelerate innova-
tion and commercialization with respect to ad-
vances in technological understanding of com-
munications technologies; 
‘‘(K) identify barriers to trust, security, in-
novation, and commercialization with respect to 
communications technologies, including access 
to capital and other resources, and ways to 
overcome such barriers; 
‘‘(L) provide public access to relevant data, 
research, and technical assistance on innovation 
and commercialization with respect to commu-
nications technologies, consistent with the pro-
tection of classified information; 
‘‘(M) strengthen collaboration on and co-
ordination of policies relating to innovation and 
commercialization with respect to communica-
tions technologies, including policies focused on 
the needs of small businesses and rural commu-
nities— 
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‘‘(i) within the Department of Com-
merce; 
‘‘(ii) between the Department of Com-
merce and State government agencies, as 
appropriate; and 
‘‘(iii) between the Department of 
Commerce and the Commission or any 
other Federal agency the Assistant Sec-
retary determines to be necessary; and 
‘‘(N) solicit and consider feedback from 
small and rural communications service pro-
viders, as appropriate.’’. 
(b) TRANSITIONAL RULES.— 
(1) REDESIGNATION
OF
ASSOCIATE
ADMINIS-
TRATOR; CONTINUATION OF SERVICE.— 
(A) REDESIGNATION.—The position of As-
sociate Administrator for Policy Analysis and 
Development at the NTIA is hereby redesig-
nated as the position of Associate Adminis-
trator for Policy Development and Cybersecu-
rity. 
(B) CONTINUATION OF SERVICE.—The in-
dividual serving as Associate Administrator for 
Policy Analysis and Development at the NTIA 
on the date of the enactment of this Act shall 
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become, as of such date, the Associate Adminis-
trator for Policy Development and Cybersecu-
rity. 
(2) NTIA DEFINED.—In this subsection, the 
term ‘‘NTIA’’ means the National Telecommuni-
cations and Information Administration. 
Passed the House of Representatives July 25, 2023. 
Attest: 
KEVIN F. MCCUMBER, 
Clerk. 
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