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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9129 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 9129
To provide for certain humanoid and quadruped robotics communications
equipment or services to be placed on the covered list of the Federal
Communications Commission, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
June 3, 2026
Mr. Moolenaar (for himself, Mr. Obernolte, and Ms. McClellan)
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on
Energy and Commerce
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A BILL
To provide for certain humanoid and quadruped robotics communications
equipment or services to be placed on the covered list of the Federal
Communications Commission, and for other purposes.
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 ``Guarding the U.S. against
Adversarial Robotics Dominance Act of 2026'' or the ``GUARD Act of
2026''.
SEC. 2. ANALYSIS OF CERTAIN HUMANOID OR QUADRUPED ROBOTICS
COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT OR SERVICES.
(a) Evaluation of Covered Robotics Communications Equipment or
Services.--
(1) Placement on covered list.--Except as provided in
paragraph (2), not later than 1 year after the date of the
enactment of this Act, an appropriate national security agency
shall determine if covered robotics communications equipment or
services pose an unacceptable risk to the national security of
the United States or the security and safety of United states
persons.
(2) Exception.--Paragraph (1) does not apply with respect
to any covered robotics communications equipment or service
that an appropriate national security agency determines, not
later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act,
does not pose an unacceptable risk to the national security of
the United States or the security and safety of United States
persons.
(3) Addition to covered list.--If the appropriate national
security agency does not make a determination as required by
paragraph (1) within 1 year after the enactment of this Act,
the Commission shall add all covered robotics communications
equipment or services to the covered list.
(b) Effect of Other Determinations.--
(1) Determined to pose unacceptable risk.--Not later than
30 days after an appropriate national security agency
determines that any covered robotics communications equipment
or service poses an unacceptable risk to the national security
of the United States or the security and safety of United
States persons--
(A) the Commission shall place such covered
robotics communications equipment or service on the
covered list; and
(B) the appropriate national security agency shall
submit to the appropriate congressional committees a
report on the determination of such agency, which shall
be submitted in unclassified form but may contain a
classified annex.
(2) Determined not to pose unacceptable risk.--If an
appropriate national security agency determines that any
covered robotics communications equipment or service does not
pose an unacceptable risk to the national security of the
United States or the security and safety of United States
persons--
(A) not later than 30 days after the determination,
such agency shall submit to the appropriate
congressional committees and all other appropriate
national security agencies a report on the
determination, which shall be submitted in unclassified
form but may contain a classified annex; and
(B) not later than 180 days after the
determination, all other appropriate national security
agencies shall review the determination and shall
submit to the appropriate congressional committees a
report on the respective determinations of such
agencies, which shall be submitted in unclassified form
but may contain a classified annex.
(c) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term
``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
(A) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee
on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and
the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate; and
(B) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee
on Homeland Security, the Committee on Energy and
Commerce, and the Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence of the House of Representatives.
(2) Appropriate national security agency.--The term
``appropriate national security agency'' has the meaning given
such term in section 9 of the Secure and Trusted Communications
Networks Act of 2019 (47 U.S.C. 1608).
(3) Commission.--The term ``Commission'' means the Federal
Communications Commission.
(4) Communications equipment or services.--The term
``communications equipment or services'' has the meaning given
such term in section 9 of the Secure and Trusted Communications
Networks Act of 2019 (47 U.S.C. 1608).
(5) Country of concern.--The term ``country of concern''
has the meaning given such term in section 1(m)(1) of the State
Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C.
2651a(m)(1)).
(6) Covered foreign entity.--The term ``covered foreign
entity'' means--
(A) an entity that--
(i) is headquartered in, has its principal
place of business in, or is organized under the
laws of a country of concern; or
(ii) is subject to the influence,
direction, or control of the government of a
country of concern;
(B) an affiliate or wholly or partially owned
subsidiary of an entity described in subparagraph (A);
(C) an entity in a joint venture with an entity
described in subparagraph (A); and
(D) an entity with which an entity described in
subparagraph (A) has a technology sharing or licensing
agreement.
(7) Covered list.--The term ``covered list'' means the list
of covered communications equipment or services published by
the Commission under section 2(a) of the Secure and Trusted
Communications Networks Act of 2019 (47 U.S.C. 1601(a)).
(8) Covered robotics communications equipment or service.--
The term ``covered robotics communications equipment or
service'' means any humanoid or quadruped robot, or software
designed to control such robot that is a communications
equipment or services produced or provided by a covered foreign
entity.
(9) Humanoid or quadruped robot.--The term ``humanoid or
quadruped robot'' means--
(A) a mechanical device that--
(i) possesses a body structure that uses 2
or 4 articulated limbs for locomotion,
navigation, or movement on the ground; and
(ii) operates at a distance from a human
operator or supervisor autonomously, semi-
autonomously, based on commands or response to
sensor data or any combination thereof; and
(B) any external device designed to control a
mechanical device described in subparagraph (A).
(d) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be
construed to apply to any country that is not a country of concern,
including a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) ally and a Major
Non-NATO Ally.
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