Tap any paragraph to write a margin note. Your notes collect in the Desk below the text and file under cases with @. The side-by-side margin rail opens on a larger screen.

Code · BILL · 113th Congress · S. 2956 (Introduced in Senate) — To prevent caller ID spoofing, and for other purposes. · Sec. 3

Sec. 3. Authentication of call origination

195 words·~1 min read·/bill/113/s/2956/is/section-3

A research copy — for the controlling text, always check the official state or federal source. Not legal advice.

Part I of title II of the Communications Act of 1934 ( 47 U.S.C. 201 et seq. ), as amended by section 2, is amended by adding at the end the following: In this section, the term voice service means any service that furnishes voice communications to an end user using resources from the North American Numbering Plan or any successor plan adopted by the Commission under section 251(e)(1). Not later than 5 years after the date of enactment of the Phone Scam Prevention Act of 2014 , the Commission shall develop authentication standards for providers of a voice service to validate the calling party number and caller identification information of a call originated through a voice service so that the subscriber receiving the call may obtain— a secure assurance of the origin of the call, including— the calling party number; and caller identification information for the call; or notice that an assurance described in paragraph
(1)is unavailable. Each provider of a voice service that is allocated telephone numbers from the portion of the North American Numbering Plan that pertains to the United States shall adopt the authentication standards developed under subsection (b). .
Connectionstraces to 1
Traces to 1 document
Citation graph
cites case law
Sec. 3
Authentication of call origination
Cites 1Cited by 0 across 0 sources
★   the supreme law of the land   ★
Don't Tread on Me
E Pluribus Unum — out of many, one

"If you don't know your rights, you don't have any."

Marginalia · a citizen's law index
A research desk, not legal advice. Always read the cited source before relying on a summary.
Questions or an issue? support@self-law.org
disclaimerMarginalia is a research index, not a law firm. Nothing on this site is legal, tax, or financial advice and no attorney–client relationship is formed by using it. Statutes, regulations, and case law change; summaries, search results, AI output, and member posts may be incomplete, out of date, or wrong. Any interpretation drawn from material on this site should be validated by a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction before you act on it.