I 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7236 
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to provide for the establishment 
of a radiofrequency radiation site safety information database, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 10, 2018 
Mr. HUNTER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to provide for 
the establishment of a radiofrequency radiation site safe-
ty information database, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Radiofrequency Radi-
ation Site Safety Information Act of 2018’’. 
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SEC. 2. RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION SITE SAFETY INFOR-
MATION DATABASE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Part I of title III of the Commu-
nications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 301 et seq.) is amended 
by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 344. RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION SITE SAFETY IN-
FORMATION DATABASE. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Commission shall promul-
gate regulations that provide for the establishment of an 
online database that contains safety information relating 
to the radiofrequency radiation emissions of covered facili-
ties. 
‘‘(b) REQUIREMENTS FOR DATABASE.—The regula-
tions promulgated under subsection (a) shall require that 
the database— 
‘‘(1) enable the licensee of a covered facility, 
the owner or property manager of a site where a 
covered facility is located, any person performing 
work at such a site or employing an individual per-
forming work at such a site, and such other persons 
as the Commission considers appropriate to partici-
pate in the sharing of safety information relating to 
the radiofrequency radiation emissions of such facil-
ity; 
‘‘(2) contain specific safety information relating 
to the radiofrequency radiation emissions of each 
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covered facility, including a detailed depiction of all 
radiofrequency radiation hazard areas; 
‘‘(3) be updated as changes in information 
occur; 
‘‘(4) be available to the public, except that any 
information that the licensee of the covered facility 
determines to be sensitive shall only be accessible by 
the persons described in paragraph (1) with respect 
to such facility; and 
‘‘(5) be established and administered by one or 
more neutral third parties (to be designated by the 
Commission). 
‘‘(c) REQUIREMENT FOR LICENSEES AND OTHERS.— 
The regulations promulgated under subsection (a) shall 
require the persons described in subsection (b)(1) to par-
ticipate in the sharing of information as described in such 
subsection. 
‘‘(d) AUDITS
BY COMMISSION.—The Commission 
shall routinely audit the database established under sub-
section (a) to verify the accuracy of the information in 
the database. 
‘‘(e) LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.—A person described 
in subsection (b)(1) with respect to a covered facility shall 
not be liable in any civil action for an injury alleged to 
have been caused by radiofrequency radiation emissions 
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of such facility, if such person is in compliance with the 
information sharing requirement under subsection (c) with 
respect to such facility during the period that— 
‘‘(1) begins— 
‘‘(A) in the case of an injury that is al-
leged to have occurred on or after the day that 
is 180 days after the date on which the data-
base is established under subsection (a), on the 
date on which the injury is alleged to have oc-
curred; or 
‘‘(B) in the case of an injury that is al-
leged to have occurred before the day described 
in subparagraph (A), on such day; 
‘‘(2) ends on the date on which there is a final 
disposition, from which no appeal may be taken, in 
such civil action; and 
‘‘(3) excludes any time when such information 
sharing requirement does not apply to such person. 
‘‘(f) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) COVERED FACILITY.—The term ‘covered 
facility’ means a facility, operation, or transmitter 
that— 
‘‘(A) is subject to the radiofrequency radi-
ation exposure limits set forth in section 1.1310 
of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations; and 
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‘‘(B) is in a fixed location. 
‘‘(2) FIXED LOCATION.—The term ‘fixed loca-
tion’ means, with respect to a facility, operation, or 
transmitter, that such facility, operation, or trans-
mitter is physically secured at one location and is 
not able to be easily moved to another location.’’. 
(b) DEADLINE
FOR RULEMAKING.—The Federal 
Communications Commission shall promulgate the regula-
tions required by subsection (a) of section 344 of the Com-
munications Act of 1934, as added by subsection (a) of 
this section, not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act. 
(c) DEADLINE
FOR
ESTABLISHMENT
OF
DATA-
BASE.—The Federal Communications Commission shall 
establish the database provided for in such regulations not 
later than 18 months after the date on which the Commis-
sion promulgates such regulations. 
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