Sec. 10. STOP ROBOCALLS
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## SEC. 10 STOP ROBOCALLS ###
(a)Information Sharing Regarding Robocall and Spoofing Violations Section 227 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 227) is amended by adding at the end the following: > > ### “(i) Information Sharing > > > #### “(1) In general > > Not later than 18 months after the date of the enactment of this subsection, the Commission shall prescribe regulations to establish a process that streamlines the ways in which a private entity may voluntarily share with the Commission information relating to— > > > ##### “(A) > > a call made or a text message sent in violation of subsection (b); or > > > ##### “(B) > > a call or text message for which misleading or inaccurate caller identification information was caused to be transmitted in violation of subsection (e). > > > #### “(2) Text message defined > > In this subsection, the term ‘text message’ has the meaning given such term in subsection (e)(8).” > . ###
(b)Robocall Blocking Service Section 227 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 227), as amended by subsection (a), is further amended by adding at the end the following: > > ### “(j) Robocall Blocking Service > > > #### “(1) In general > > Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this subsection, the Commission shall take a final agency action to ensure the robocall blocking services provided on an opt-out or opt-in basis pursuant to the Declaratory Ruling of the Commission in the matter of Advanced Methods to Target and Eliminate Unlawful Robocalls (CG Docket No. 17-59; FCC 19-51; adopted on June 6, 2019)— > > > ##### “(A) > > are provided with transparency and effective redress options for both— > > > ###### “(i) > > consumers; and > > > ###### “(ii) > > callers; and > > > ##### “(B) > > are provided with no additional line item charge to consumers and no additional charge to callers for resolving complaints related to erroneously blocked calls; and > > > ##### “(C) > > make all reasonable efforts to avoid blocking emergency public safety calls. > > > #### “(2) Text message defined > > In this subsection, the term ‘text message’ has the meaning given such term in subsection (e)(8).” > . ###
(c)Study on Information Requirements for Certain VoIP Service Providers ####
(1)In general The Commission shall conduct a study regarding whether to require a provider of covered VoIP service to— #####
(A)provide to the Commission contact information for such provider and keep such information current; and #####
(B)retain records relating to each call transmitted over the covered VoIP service of such provider that are sufficient to trace such call back to the source of such call. ####
(2)Report to congress Not later than 18 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Commission shall submit to Congress a report on the results of the study conducted under paragraph (1). ####
(3)Covered voip service defined In this subsection, the term “covered VoIP service” means a service that— #####
(A)is an interconnected VoIP service (as defined in section 3 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 153)); or #####
(B)would be an interconnected VoIP service (as so defined) except that the service permits users to terminate calls to the public switched telephone network but does not permit users to receive calls that originate on the public switched telephone network. ###
(d)Transitional Rule Regarding Definition of Text Message **[**[47 U.S.C. 227 note](/us/usc/t47/s227)**]** Paragraph
(2)of subsection
(i)of section 227 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 227), as added by subsection
(a)of this section, and paragraph
(2)of subsection
(j)of such section 227, as added by subsection
(b)of this section, shall apply before the effective date of the amendment made to subsection (e)(8) of such section 227 by subparagraph
(C)of section 503(a)(2) of division P of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 (Public Law 115-141) as if such amendment was already in effect.
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