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Requires the Federal Communications Commission to publish and annually update a public list of companies that hold FCC licenses or authorizations and have certain ownership ties to foreign adversary countries.

Official title: Foreign Adversary Communications Transparency Act

Next stop House: awaiting action
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Received 24-OCT-2025
Senate
Introduced 27-JAN-2025
Referred 27-JAN-2025
Approved by committee 30-APR-2025
Reported 09-JUL-2025
On the calendar 09-JUL-2025
Passed 23-OCT-2025
Key points
  • Requires the FCC to publish the list within 120 days, covering entities holding certain satellite, cable landing, or spectrum licenses where a covered foreign entity holds a reportable equity or voting interest or national security agencies determine it exerts control.
  • Requires the FCC to issue rules within 18 months to identify other FCC authorization holders with reportable covered-country ownership, and to add them to the list within one year after those rules issue.
  • Defines covered entities as governments of, or entities organized under the laws of, countries listed in federal defense law, including their subsidiaries, and requires annual updates to the list.
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Official CRS summary

Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in Senate" (27-JAN-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in Senate, 23-OCT-2025).

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Committee referrals (1) Policy area

Science, Technology, Communications

Sponsor Deb Fischer (R-NE) Cosponsors · 3
■ 2 D■ 1 R
1 Republican