Communications and Technology Transparency Act of 2026

(e) Matters related to additions to list

(1) Limitation. On and after the date of the enactment of this subsection, the Commission may not place any information and communications technology or service on the list published under subsection (a) unless such information and communications technology or service is produced or provided by an entity controlled by a foreign adversary.

(2) Report to Congress

(A) Submission. Not later than 7 days before the Commission places information and communications technology or service on the list, the Commission and, if applicable, the head of any agency that made the determination that served as the basis for the placement of the technology or service on the list, shall submit a report to Congress that includes—

(i) an identification of the technology or service being placed on the list; and

(ii) an explanation of the specific national security concern that served as the basis for the determination.

(B) Form. The report required by subparagraph (A) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.

(3) Foreign adversary defined. In this subsection, the term foreign adversary has the meaning given the term covered nation in section 4872(f)(2) of title 10, United States Code.

(f) Applicability of congressional review act. The placement on or removal from the list published under subsection (a) of a class or category of information and communications technology or service without reference to an entity that produced or provided that technology shall be deemed a major rule, as defined in section 804 of title 5, United States Code, for the purposes of chapter 8 of that title.