Title: SPECTRUM NOW Act
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
Supplementing the Pipeline for Efficient Control of The Resources for Users Making New Opportunities for Wireless Act or the SPECTRUM NOW Act
This bill amends the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Organization Act to authorize the Office of Management and Budget to make a payment from the Spectrum Relocation Fund for costs of spectrum research and development and planning activities under specified circumstances.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3010 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3010

To amend the National Telecommunications and Information Administration 
 Organization Act to provide for necessary payments from the Spectrum 
  Relocation Fund for costs of spectrum research and development and 
                          planning activities.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              June 6, 2018

  Mr. Wicker (for himself, Mr. Schatz, and Mr. Udall) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                 Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the National Telecommunications and Information Administration 
 Organization Act to provide for necessary payments from the Spectrum 
  Relocation Fund for costs of spectrum research and development and 
                          planning activities.

    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 ``Supplementing the Pipeline for 
Efficient Control of The Resources for Users Making New Opportunities 
for Wireless Act'' or the ``SPECTRUM NOW Act''.

SEC. 2. COSTS OF SPECTRUM RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AND PLANNING 
              ACTIVITIES.

    Section 118(g) of the National Telecommunications and Information 
Administration Organization Act (47 U.S.C. 928(g)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``; and'' and 
                inserting a semicolon;
                    (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking the period at 
                the end and inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(C) the Director of OMB may make a payment 
                described in paragraph (2) from amounts in the Fund 
                other than amounts made available under subparagraphs 
                (A) and (B) if, before making the payment, the Director 
                of OMB, in consultation with NTIA, determines and 
                submits to the congressional committees described in 
                subsection (d)(2)(C) a certification that--
                            ``(i) the conditions described in 
                        subclauses (I) and (II) of paragraph (2)(D)(i) 
                        have been met;
                            ``(ii) as of the date of the certification, 
                        amounts made available under subparagraphs (A) 
                        and (B) are insufficient to make the payment 
                        requested by the Federal entity in the plan 
                        approved under paragraph (2)(E) by the 
                        Technical Panel established under section 
                        113(h)(3); and
                            ``(iii) the payment will leave sufficient 
                        amounts in the Fund to pay the relocation or 
                        sharing costs that will be incurred by eligible 
                        Federal entities to complete the implementation 
                        of all transition plans that, as of the date of 
                        the certification, have been found sufficient 
                        by the Technical Panel under section 
                        113(h)(4).''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2)(D)(ii), by inserting after ``60 days'' 
        the following: ``(or, in the case of a payment under paragraph 
        (1)(C), 30 days)''.
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