Secure Space Act of 2022

Bill: 117-hr-9464
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2022-12-08
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies

Internet, web applications, social media

Licensing and registrations

Spacecraft and satellites

Telephone and wireless communication
Latest action: action_date: 2022-12-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-12-08
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Secure Space Act of 2022</b></p>   <p>This bill prohibits the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from granting licenses or access to U.S. markets for non-geostationary orbit satellite systems to certain producers or providers of communications equipment or services. Specifically, the FCC may not grant a license or market access to an entity that produces or provides equipment or a service that the FCC determines poses an unacceptable risk to national security or the security and safety of U.S. persons (e.g., Huawei Technologies Company and China Mobile International USA Inc.). </p> <p>Non-geostationary satellite systems are comprised of satellites that do not maintain a stationary position but rather move in relation to the Earth's surface; they may be used to provide broadband and other telecommunications services.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 9464 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 8, 2022 Mr. Pallone (for himself and Mrs. Rodgers of Washington ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To amend the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act of 2019 to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from granting a license or United States market access for a non-geostationary orbit satellite system if the license or grant of market access would be held or controlled by an entity that produces or provides any covered communications equipment or service or an affiliate of such an entity, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Secure Space Act of 2022 . 2. Prohibition on grant of certain satellite licenses or United States market access (a) In general The Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act of 2019 ( 47 U.S.C. 1601 et seq. ) is amended— (1) by redesignating sections 10 and 11 as sections 11 and 12, respectively; and (2) by inserting after section 9 the following: 10. Prohibition on grant of certain satellite licenses or United States market access The Commission may not grant a license for, or a petition for a declaratory ruling to access the United States market using, a non-geostationary orbit satellite system (as defined in section 25.103 of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations (or any successor regulation)), if such license or grant of market access would be held or controlled by— (1) an entity that produces or provides any covered communications equipment or service; or (2) an affiliate (as defined in section 3 of the Communications Act of 1934 ( 47 U.S.C. 153 )) of an entity described in paragraph (1). . (b) Applicability Section 10 of the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act of 2019, as added by subsection (a), shall apply with respect to the grant of a license or petition on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.