[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3836 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3836

   To amend section 332 of the Communications Act of 1934 to include 
 public safety requirements in terms and conditions States may require 
                          of mobile services.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 18, 2019

 Ms. Eshoo (for herself, Mr. Thompson of California, Mr. Huffman, Mrs. 
 Davis of California, Mr. Khanna, Ms. Speier, Mr. Ruiz, Mr. Rouda, Ms. 
 Brownley of California, Mr. Cox of California, Ms. Roybal-Allard, Mr. 
 Panetta, Ms. Hill of California, Mr. Cisneros, Ms. Lee of California, 
and Mr. McNerney) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                  the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend section 332 of the Communications Act of 1934 to include 
 public safety requirements in terms and conditions States may require 
                          of mobile services.

    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 ``Wireless Infrastructure Resiliency 
during Emergencies and Disasters Act'' or the ``WIRED Act''.

SEC. 2. REGULATORY TREATMENT OF MOBILE SERVICES.

    Section 332(c)(3)(A) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 
332(c)(3)(A)) is amended by inserting after ``other terms and 
conditions of commercial mobile services'' the following: ``including 
reasonable requirements to promote resilient wireless communications 
infrastructure for situational awareness during a natural disaster (as 
such term is defined in section 602 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5195a(a)(2)))''.
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