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HR2037Passed House

Open RAN Outreach Act

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Introduced
In Committee
Passed One Chamber
4
Passed Both
5
Signed into Law
119th
Congress
2025-03-11
Introduced
1
Cosponsors
HR
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Type

Sponsor

Troy A. Carter
Troy A. Carter
Democrat · LA · Representative
Votes with party: 98.3% (599 recorded votes)

Full profile: /officials/C001125

Source: Congress.gov · FEC

Cosponsors (1)

Members who have signed on to support this bill since introduction. Source: Congress.gov.

1 cosponsor on record at Congress.gov. The named list is syncing into Govwatch and will appear here shortly — view on Congress.gov in the meantime.

Latest Action

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Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

2025-07-15

Source: Congress.gov

Committee Activity

Currently in

  • Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and TransportationReferred To · 2025-07-15
  • House Committee on Energy and CommerceReported By · 2025-07-02

Previously

  • House Committee on Energy and CommerceMarkup By · 2025-04-08
  • House Committee on Energy and CommerceReferred To · 2025-03-11

Plain-English Summary

Open RAN Outreach Act This bill requires the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to conduct outreach and provide technical assistance to small communications network providers regarding the benefits, uses, and challenges of Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) standards and other open network architectures. (Open RAN is a nonproprietary, standardized network deployment approach that promotes open networks with interoperable equipment and virtualized network operations.) The NTIA must also conduct outreach and provide assistance to small providers regarding participation in the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund, a competitive grant program that funds efforts to accelerate the development, deployment, and adoption of Open RAN.

Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.

Subjects

Science, Technology, Communications
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Open text viewRead on Congress.gov

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