Bills Introduced – 2-11-21

Yesterday with the Senate still sitting as jury in the Trump Impeachment Trial and the House meeting in proforma session, there were 89 bills introduced. One of those bills will receive additional coverage in this blog:

HR 981 To direct the Federal Communications Commission to collect and maintain data on the growth in the use of Internet of Things devices and devices that use 5G mobile networks in order to determine the amount of electromagnetic spectrum required to meet the demand created by such use, and for other purposes. Rep. DelBene, Suzan K. [D-WA-1]

DelBene provided a link to a copy of the bill in a press release yesterday. With the GPO taking so long to publish official copies of legislation (they are still working on bills introduced on 1-21-21) a congresscritter wanting their bill to be seen by the public needs to take this sort of action.

In any case, while a more detailed review of the bill will be coming in a future blog post, I did want to mention the definition of ‘internet of things device’ that DelBene uses in this bill:

“The term ‘‘Internet of Things device’’ means a device that uses a network to communicate and share data with other devices.” {§4(2)}

You cannot find a more inclusive definition of ‘IoT device’ than that.