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The bill strengthens national security and clarity around foreign‑controlled, high‑wattage IoT risks—helping utilities, governments, and consumers identify and block dangerous apps and devices—but does so at the cost of higher consumer and business compliance costs, reduced product choice, and added administrative and legal burdens.
Utilities, homeowners, state and local governments, and federal agencies: the bill gives agencies clearer statutory authority, definitions (including a listed foreign adversary), and legal tools (including application of EO 13873) to identify, block, and mitigate threats from foreign‑controlled high‑wattage IoT apps—reducing the risk of coordinated demand‑manipulation attacks and electricity grid/
Utilities and homeowners: the policy focuses on high‑wattage IoT devices (defined >500W), concentrating mitigation and oversight on devices most likely to stress the grid and cause outages.
Households (homeowners and renters): stronger protections against foreign‑controlled apps collecting or manipulating appliance data, reducing risk of external control or data misuse of home devices.
Homeowners and small businesses: may face higher costs to replace, upgrade, certify, or otherwise buy compliant high‑wattage devices as labeling, certification, or restrictions are implemented.
Manufacturers, vendors, app developers, and tech workers: could incur substantial compliance costs, lose access to government contracts, face export or market disruptions, and suffer legal uncertainty—especially if broad definitions sweep in U.S. affiliates.
Homeowners and small businesses: targeting companies from specific countries or restricting transactions could reduce product choice and disrupt supply chains, causing shortages or delays in available IoT devices.
Based on analysis of 5 sections of legislative text.
Requires a Commerce-led report (270 days) on national-security risks from foreign-adversary-controlled apps that can operate high-wattage home IoT devices and enacts Executive Order 13873 into law.
Introduced July 31, 2025 by Richard Lynn Scott · Last progress July 31, 2025
Requires the Secretary of Commerce, working with other federal officials, to study and report within 270 days on national security risks from internet-connected high-wattage home appliances and any apps or services controlled by foreign-adversary entities that could be used to manipulate electricity demand or collect/manipulate consumer data. The report must assess grid risks, deployment scope, and recommend mitigations such as applying an existing national-security executive order to IoT devices, federal procurement limits, and labeling/certification measures. The bill also adopts Executive Order 13873 into law and directs the Archivist to publish the text alongside the Act.