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116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5000 
To amend the National Telecommunications and Information Administration 
Organization Act to provide for the establishment of an electromagnetic 
spectrum sharing prototyping program and an integrated spectrum auto-
mation enterprise strategy, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 8, 2019 
Mr. MICHAEL F. DOYLE of Pennsylvania (for himself and Mr. LATTA) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy 
and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the National Telecommunications and Information 
Administration Organization Act to provide for the estab-
lishment of an electromagnetic spectrum sharing proto-
typing program and an integrated spectrum automation 
enterprise strategy, 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 ‘‘Studying How to Har-
ness Airwave Resources Efficiently Act of 2019’’ or the 
‘‘SHARE Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. NTIA ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM SHARING 
PROTOTYPING PROGRAM AND AUTOMATION 
STRATEGY. 
Part A of the National Telecommunications and In-
formation Administration Organization Act (47 U.S.C. 
901 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘SEC. 
106. 
ELECTROMAGNETIC 
SPECTRUM 
SHARING 
PROTOTYPING PROGRAM AND AUTOMATION 
STRATEGY. 
‘‘(a) PROTOTYPING PROGRAM.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after 
the date of the enactment of the Studying How to 
Harness Airwave Resources Efficiently Act of 2019, 
the Assistant Secretary, in consultation with the 
Commission, shall establish a program to facilitate 
the prototyping of innovative technologies and tech-
niques that facilitate the sharing of the same cov-
ered electromagnetic spectrum by more than one 
Federal entity. 
‘‘(2) SHARING TEST BED.—Not later than 15 
months after the date of the enactment of the 
Studying How to Harness Airwave Resources Effi-
ciently Act of 2019, the Assistant Secretary, in con-
sultation with the Commission, shall, under the pro-
gram established under paragraph (1), establish at 
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least one test bed to demonstrate the potential for 
the dynamic sharing of the same covered electro-
magnetic spectrum by more than one Federal entity. 
‘‘(b) DEVELOPMENT OF INTEGRATED SPECTRUM AU-
TOMATION ENTERPRISE STRATEGY.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 18 months 
after the date of the enactment of the Studying How 
to Harness Airwave Resources Efficiently Act of 
2019, the Assistant Secretary, in consultation with 
the Commission, shall, under the program estab-
lished under subsection (a)(1), propose, after notice 
and opportunity for comment, an integrated spec-
trum automation enterprise strategy to address the 
management of covered electromagnetic spectrum in 
order to facilitate the sharing of such spectrum by 
more than one Federal entity. 
‘‘(2) MATTERS ENCOMPASSED.—In developing 
the strategy under paragraph (1), the Assistant Sec-
retary shall consider, at a minimum, whether to pro-
pose in the strategy— 
‘‘(A) changes in policy or to the law, in-
cluding legislative and regulatory changes; and 
‘‘(B) using— 
‘‘(i) databases; 
‘‘(ii) artificial intelligence; 
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‘‘(iii) spectrum management proc-
esses; 
‘‘(iv) public-facing application pro-
gramming interfaces and online tools; 
‘‘(v) automatic frequency coordination 
systems, including standard interfaces and 
data exchange formats and requirements; 
‘‘(vi) spectrum enforcement require-
ments; 
‘‘(vii) listen-before-talk; 
‘‘(viii) environmental sensing capabili-
ties; and 
‘‘(ix) electromagnetic spectrum com-
patibility analyses. 
‘‘(3) UPDATES TO STRATEGY.—Not later than 
2 years after the strategy under paragraph (1) is 
proposed, and every 2 years thereafter, the Assistant 
Secretary shall update such strategy. 
‘‘(c) BIANNUAL REPORT.—Not later than 18 months 
after the date of the enactment of the Studying How to 
Harness Airwave Resources Efficiently Act of 2019, and 
in the last quarter of each even-numbered calendar year 
thereafter, the Assistant Secretary, in consultation with 
the Commission, shall submit to the Committee on Energy 
and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the 
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Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of 
the Senate a report containing the status and results of 
the program established under subsection (a), including 
the status and results of the test bed established under 
paragraph (2) of such subsection and the strategy devel-
oped under subsection (b). 
‘‘(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
is authorized to be appropriated to the Assistant Secretary 
to carry out this section $50,000,000. Such amounts are 
authorized to remain available until expended. 
‘‘(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) 
COVERED
ELECTROMAGNETIC
SPEC-
TRUM.—The term ‘covered electromagnetic spec-
trum’ means electromagnetic spectrum allocated for 
exclusive or primary use by Federal entities. 
‘‘(2) FEDERAL ENTITY.—The term ‘Federal en-
tity’ has the meaning given such term in section 
113(l).’’. 
SEC. 3. FCC AND NTIA REPORT ON EXPANDING SPECTRUM 
SHARING TECHNIQUES AND SHARING STRAT-
EGIES. 
(a) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after the conclu-
sion of the first auction of Priority Access Licenses in the 
3.5 gigahertz band, the Federal Communications Commis-
sion and the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Com-
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munications and Information, in consultation with the Di-
rector of the National Institute of Standards and Tech-
nology, after notice and opportunity for comment, shall 
submit to the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee on Com-
merce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report 
that assesses and provides recommendations for expanding 
upon and improving spectrum sharing techniques devel-
oped for use in the 3.5 gigahertz band, or other spectrum 
sharing strategies, that includes the following consider-
ations: 
(1) How to promote an ecosystem of devices 
employing such sharing techniques or such other 
sharing strategies. 
(2) How to incentivize spectrum users to em-
ploy such sharing techniques or such other sharing 
strategies. 
(3) How to ensure that any Federal protection 
zones and corresponding technical rules and power 
levels are no more protective than necessary. 
(4) The applicability of such sharing techniques 
or such other sharing strategies to frequencies be-
tween 3100 megahertz and 3550 megahertz, inclu-
sive, and frequencies between 7125 megahertz and 
8400 megahertz, inclusive, to the extent any portion 
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of such frequencies cannot be cleared in a reasonable 
amount of time. 
(b) RULE
OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in sub-
section (a)(4) may be construed to require that every spec-
trum sharing technique developed for use in the 3.5 
gigahertz band be recommended for use in other bands. 
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