Sec. 31202. Future of Telecommunications Council
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In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated to the Secretary of Commerce for fiscal year 2022, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $7,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2031, to establish a council of 14 members in coordination with the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate, the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives, the Deputy Secretary of Commerce, the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information, the Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology, the Chair of the Federal Communications Commission, the Director of the National Science Foundation, the Majority Leader of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, to be known as the Future of Telecommunications Council , to advise Congress on the development and adoption of 6G and other advanced wireless communications technologies, including ensuring equity in access to those technologies for communities of color and rural communities.