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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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116TH CONGRESS [REPT. 116-592
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1
SPECTRUM IT MODERNIZATION ACT OF 2020
NOVEMBER 16, 2020.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. PALLONE, from the Committee on Energy and Commerce,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 7310]
The Committee on Energy and Commerce, to whom was referred
the bill (H.R. 7310) to require the Assistant Secretary of Commerce
for Communications and Information to submit to Congress a plan
for the modernization of the information technology systems of the
National Telecommunications and Information Administration, and
for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably
thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill do pass.
CONTENTS
Page
I. Purpose and Sum m ary .................................................................................. 1
II. Background and Need for the Legislation ................................................... 2
III. Committee Hearings ...................................................................................... 2
IV. Com m ittee Consideration .............................................................................. 3
V . Com m ittee V otes .......................................................................................... 3
VI. Oversight Findings ........................................................................................ 3
VII. New Budget Authority, Entitlement Authority, and Tax Expenditures 3
VIII. Federal M andates Statem ent ...................................................................... . 3
IX. Statement of General Performance Goals and Objectives ......................... 4
X. Duplication of Federal Programs .................................................................. 4
XI. Com m ittee Cost Estim ate ........................................................................... 4
XII. Earmarks, Limited Tax Benefits, and Limited Tariff Benefits .................. 4
XIII. Advisory Committee Statement .................................................................... 4
XIV. Applicability to Legislative Branch .............................................................. 4
XV. Section-by-Section Analysis of the Legislation ........................................... 4
XVI. Changes in Existing Law Made by the Bill, as Reported ........................... 5
I. PURPOSE AND SUMMARY
Representatives Michael Doyle (D-PA), Robert L. Latta (R-OH),
Rick Larsen (D-WA), and Tim Walberg (R-MI) introduced H.R.
7310, the Spectrum IT Modernization Act of 2020. Given the
ever-increasing need for shared spectrum for wireless communica-
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