Cellphone Jamming Reform Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 2350 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2350 To provide that the Federal Communications Commission may not prevent a State or Federal correctional facility from utilizing jamming equipment, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 26, 2025 Mr. Kustoff (for himself, Mr. Norman, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. Scott Franklin of Florida, Mr. Guest, and Mr. Collins) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To provide that the Federal Communications Commission may not prevent a State or Federal correctional facility from utilizing jamming equipment, 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 ``Cellphone Jamming Reform Act of 2025''. SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON FCC AUTHORITY. (a) Definitions.--In this section-- (1) the term ``Commission'' means the Federal Communications Commission; (2) the term ``correctional facility'' means a jail, prison, penitentiary, or other correctional facility; and (3) the term ``jamming system''-- (A) means a system of radio signal generating and processing equipment and antennas designed to disrupt, prevent, interfere with, or jam a wireless communication into, from, or within a correctional facility; and (B) includes the components and functionality of a system described in subparagraph (A), such as-- (i) antennas, cabling, and cable elements; (ii) the installation, interconnection, and operation of system elements, power levels, and radio frequencies carried on the cables or fed into antennas; (iii) the radiation pattern of the antennas; and (iv) the location and orientation of t