Title: SHARE Act
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
Studying How to Harness Airwave Resources Efficiently Act of 2019 or the SHARE Act
This bill requires the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to establish a prototyping program focused on facilitating the sharing among federal entities of the electromagnetic spectrum that is allocated for use by such entities.
In addition, the Federal Communications Commission must issue a report with recommendations for expanding upon and improving spectrum sharing techniques for use in mid-band frequencies.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5000 Introduced in House (IH)]

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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 
        automation enterprise strategy, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 8, 2019

   Mr. Michael F. Doyle of Pennsylvania (for himself and Mr. Latta) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
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 
        automation enterprise strategy, 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 ``Studying How to Harness Airwave 
Resources Efficiently Act of 2019'' or the ``SHARE Act''.

SEC. 2. NTIA ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM SHARING PROTOTYPING PROGRAM AND 
              AUTOMATION STRATEGY.

    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. 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 
        techniques that facilitate the sharing of the same covered 
        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 Efficiently Act of 2019, the Assistant Secretary, in 
        consultation with the Commission, shall, under the program 
        established under paragraph (1), establish at least one test 
        bed to demonstrate the potential for the dynamic sharing of the 
        same covered electromagnetic spectrum by more than one Federal 
        entity.
    ``(b) Development of Integrated Spectrum Automation 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 
        established under subsection (a)(1), propose, after notice and 
        opportunity for comment, an integrated spectrum 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 Secretary shall consider, at 
        a minimum, whether to propose in the strategy--
                    ``(A) changes in policy or to the law, including 
                legislative and regulatory changes; and
                    ``(B) using--
                            ``(i) databases;
                            ``(ii) artificial intelligence;
                            ``(iii) spectrum management processes;
                            ``(iv) public-facing application 
                        programming interfaces and online tools;
                            ``(v) automatic frequency coordination 
                        systems, including standard interfaces and data 
                        exchange formats and requirements;
                            ``(vi) spectrum enforcement requirements;
                            ``(vii) listen-before-talk;
                            ``(viii) environmental sensing 
                        capabilities; and
                            ``(ix) electromagnetic spectrum 
                        compatibility 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 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 developed 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 spectrum.--The term `covered 
        electromagnetic spectrum' means electromagnetic spectrum 
        allocated for exclusive or primary use by Federal entities.
            ``(2) Federal entity.--The term `Federal entity' has the 
        meaning given such term in section 113(l).''.

SEC. 3. FCC AND NTIA REPORT ON EXPANDING SPECTRUM SHARING TECHNIQUES 
              AND SHARING STRATEGIES.

    (a) Report.--Not later than 1 year after the conclusion of the 
first auction of Priority Access Licenses in the 3.5 gigahertz band, 
the Federal Communications Commission and the Assistant Secretary of 
Commerce for Communications and Information, in consultation with the 
Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, after 
notice and opportunity for comment, shall submit to the Committee on 
Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee 
on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report that 
assesses and provides recommendations for expanding upon and improving 
spectrum sharing techniques developed for use in the 3.5 gigahertz 
band, or other spectrum sharing strategies, that includes the following 
considerations:
            (1) How to promote an ecosystem of devices employing such 
        sharing techniques or such other sharing strategies.
            (2) How to incentivize spectrum users to employ 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 between 3100 megahertz 
        and 3550 megahertz, inclusive, and frequencies between 7125 
        megahertz and 8400 megahertz, inclusive, to the extent any 
        portion of such frequencies cannot be cleared in a reasonable 
        amount of time.
    (b) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in subsection (a)(4) may be 
construed to require that every spectrum sharing technique developed 
for use in the 3.5 gigahertz band be recommended for use in other 
bands.
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