A bill to prohibit the sharing of United States intelligence with countries that permit the operation of Huawei fifth generation telecommunications technology within their borders.

Bill: 116-s-3153
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR]
Introduced: 2020-01-08
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Asia

China

Computers and information technology

Foreign and international corporations

Intelligence activities, surveillance, classified information

Telephone and wireless communication
Latest action: action_date: 2020-01-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-01-08
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This bill prohibits sharing U.S. intelligence with countries that permit within their&nbsp;national borders the use of Huawei fifth generation telecommunications technology. (Huawei is a Chinese telecommunications company with suspected ties to the Chinese government.)</p>

tv_txt: II 116th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 3153 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES January 8, 2020 Mr. Cotton introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence A BILL To prohibit the sharing of United States intelligence with countries that permit the operation of Huawei fifth generation telecommunications technology within their borders.

1. Prohibition on sharing of United States intelligence with countries that permit the operation of Huawei fifth generation telecommunications technology within their borders (a) Prohibition Intelligence of or under the control of the United States, including intelligence products of the intelligence community, may not be shared with any country that permits the operation within its national borders of fifth generation (5G) telecommunications technology of Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (b) Definitions In this section, the terms intelligence and intelligence community have the meaning given such terms in section 3 of the National Security Act of 1947 ( 50 U.S.C. 3003 ).