H.R. 1495 — Digital Economy Cybersecurity Advisory Act of 2025

This section provides the short title of the Act as the “Digital Economy Cybersecurity Advisory Act of 2025.”

This section establishes within the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) a Digital Economy and Cybersecurity Board of Advisors to provide recommendations to the Assistant Secretary on cybersecurity best practices, cybersecurity policies, network security and resilience, secure supply chains, and removing barriers to trust, security, innovation, and commercialization in information and communications networks. As background, the Board would advise on policies affecting the internet and telecommunications networks, including how to secure the Border Gateway Protocol, which is used to exchange routing information among independently managed networks on the internet. This section requires the Board to have not fewer than 5 and not more than 25 members appointed by the Assistant Secretary, each with cybersecurity or supply chain security technical or policy expertise, or experience running cybersecurity or supply chain security functions in a business. It requires balanced representation from: (1) public- and private-sector chief cybersecurity officers or other qualified cybersecurity personnel, (2) persons who operate or maintain information and communications networks, (3) vendors that produce or provide network equipment, (4) vendors that produce or provide network software, and (5) persons who operate or maintain internet applications. It bars registered lobbyists under the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 from serving, authorizes reappointment for 1 or more additional terms, permits removal at the Assistant Secretary’s discretion, and limits replacement members to the remainder of a vacated term. Members would serve without compensation, and the Chair would be the Associate Administrator of NTIA for Policy Analysis and Development. This section authorizes the Board to create subcommittees, working groups, standing committees, ad hoc groups, task groups, or other subgroups with the Assistant Secretary’s approval, but requires those entities to report to the Board and prohibits them from providing advice or work product directly to the Assistant Secretary. It terminates the Board 4 years after enactment, notwithstanding the Federal advisory committee sunset provision in 5 U.S.C. § 1013. It also defines “Border Gateway Protocol” and defines “information and communications network” by reference to advanced telecommunications capability under 47 U.S.C. § 1302(d).