3.0.0 3655 2023-01-11T13:40:55Z 2023-01-11T13:40:55Z Senate S 2018-11-15 115 sscm00 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2018-11-15T22:49:31Z TRACED Act 115 7392 HR 2018-12-21 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Identical bill CRS 2018-11-15 sscm00 Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. IntroReferral 2018-11-15 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress T000250 Sen. Thune, John [R-SD] John Thune R SD R. N M000133 Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA] Edward Markey D MA J. 2018-11-15 True W000437 Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS] Roger Wicker R MS F. 2018-11-15 True C001047 Sen. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV] Shelley Capito R WV Moore 2018-11-27 False Science, Technology, Communications Science, Technology, Communications 00 2018-11-15 Introduced in Senate 2019-05-22T19:27:05Z Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence Act or the TRACED Act

This bill implements a forfeiture penalty for intentional violations of the prohibition on certain robocalls. The bill also limits the scope of an annual reporting requirement for enforcement relating to unsolicited facsimile advertisements.

The bill requires voice service providers to develop call authentication technologies.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) shall promulgate rules establishing when a provider may block a voice call based on information provided by the call authentication framework, but also must establish a process to permit a calling party adversely affected by the framework to verify the authenticity of their calls. The FCC shall also initiate a rulemaking to help protect a subscriber from receiving unwanted calls or texts from a caller using an unauthenticated number.

This bill requires the Department of Justice to assemble an interagency working group to study and report to Congress on the enforcement of the prohibition of certain robocalls. Specifically, the working group will look into how to better enforce against robocalls by examining issues like the types of laws, policies, or constraints that could be inhibiting enforcement.

The bill requires the FCC to initiate a proceeding to determine whether its policies regarding access to number resources could be modified to help reduce access to numbers by potential robocall violators.

]]> TRACED Act Display Title TRACED Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to deter criminal robocall violations and improve enforcement of section 227(b) of the Communications Act of 1934, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced TRACED Act Short Titles as Introduced Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence Act Introduced in Senate 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s3655is/xml/BILLS-115s3655is.xml 2018-11-15 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.