Official Summaries

Network Equipment Transparency Act or the NET Act

This bill requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to report biennially on the impact of network equipment availability on the deployment of advanced telecommunications capabilities (i.e., broadband). This assessment must be included in the FCC’s reports on the state of the communications marketplace, which are submitted to Congress and published publicly every other year. 

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 503 Engrossed in Senate (ES)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 503

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 AN ACT


 
    To direct the Federal Communications Commission to evaluate and 
consider the impact of the telecommunications network equipment supply 
 chain on the deployment of universal service, 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 ``Network Equipment Transparency Act'' 
or the ``NET Act''.

SEC. 2. TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPLY CHAIN CONSIDERATION.

    (a) In General.--Section 13(b) of the Communications Act of 1934 
(47 U.S.C. 163(b)) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraphs (3), (4), and (5) as 
        paragraphs (4), (5), and (6), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following:
            ``(3) assess, to the extent that data is available to the 
        Commission, how the availability of network equipment may have 
        impacted the deployment of advanced telecommunications 
        capability during the applicable reporting period;''.
    (b) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in the amendments made by 
subsection (a) shall be construed to require any provider of advanced 
telecommunications capability to provide the Federal Communications 
Commission more information than was required for the purpose of 
section 13 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 163) as in 
effect on the day before the date of enactment of this Act.
    (c) Technical and Conforming Amendments.--Section 13 of the 
Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 163), as amended by subsection 
(a), is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in paragraph (5), as so redesignated, by 
                striking ``(3)'' and inserting ``(4)''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (6), as so redesignated, by 
                striking ``(4)'' and inserting ``(5)'';
            (2) in subsection (c), by striking ``(b)(4)'' and inserting 
        ``(b)(5)''; and
            (3) in subsection (d)(3), by striking ``(b)(3)'' and 
        inserting ``(b)(4)''.

            Passed the Senate November 4, 2025.

            Attest:

                                                             Secretary.
119th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                                 S. 503

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 AN ACT

    To direct the Federal Communications Commission to evaluate and 
consider the impact of the telecommunications network equipment supply 
 chain on the deployment of universal service, and for other purposes.