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2025-09-24T14:16:03Z
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https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/725
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Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee
Senate
Standing
  - Reported By
2025-09-02T21:29:54Z
  - Markup By
2025-04-30T14:00:04Z
  - Referred To
2025-02-25T22:14:03Z
S. Rept. 119-59
- 2025-09-11
11:21:00
Held at the desk.
Floor
H15000
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House floor actions
- 2025-09-11
10:57:03
Received in the House.
Floor
H14000
2
House floor actions
- 2025-09-11
Senate
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Floor
- 2025-09-10
Senate
Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S6555; text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR S6555)
Floor
- 2025-09-10
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
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Library of Congress
- 2025-09-02
Senate
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 146.
Calendars
- 2025-09-02
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Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee
Senate
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 119-59.
Committee
- 2025-09-02
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 119-59.
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Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee
- 2025-04-30
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Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee
Senate
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Committee
- 2025-02-25
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Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee
Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
IntroReferral
- 2025-02-25
Introduced in Senate
IntroReferral
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Library of Congress
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Klobuchar
D
MN
N
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Marsha
Blackburn
R
TN
2025-02-25
True
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Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM]
Martin
Heinrich
D
NM
2025-02-25
True
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Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK]
Dan
Sullivan
R
AK
2025-02-25
True
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Sen. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM]
Ben
Luján
D
NM
R.
2025-02-25
True
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Sen. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV]
Shelley
Capito
R
WV
Moore
2025-02-25
True
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Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA]
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Markey
D
MA
J.
2025-02-25
True
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Budd
R
NC
2025-02-25
True
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2025-02-25
True
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John
Thune
R
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2025-02-25
True
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Mark
Kelly
D
AZ
2025-02-25
True
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R
ID
2025-03-12
False
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D
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2025-04-29
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- 2025-08-06T20:25:00Z

S. 725, Enhancing First Response Act
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61637
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on April 30, 2025
Science, Technology, Communications
- Congressional oversight
2025-05-12T15:21:53Z
- Emergency communications systems
2025-05-12T15:15:43Z
- Emergency planning and evacuation
2025-05-12T15:21:35Z
- First responders and emergency personnel
2025-05-12T15:22:19Z
- Government information and archives
2025-05-12T15:16:12Z
- Government studies and investigations
2025-05-12T15:21:43Z
- Telephone and wireless communication
2025-05-12T15:20:41Z
Science, Technology, Communications
2025-03-21T18:39:02Z
00
2025-02-25
Introduced in Senate
2025-04-25T18:20:31Z
Enhancing First Response Act
This bill requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to report on certain activations of the Disaster Information Reporting System (DIRS). DIRS is a reporting system that is activated during severe weather and other events impacting communications service and enables communications providers to report outages and other degradations to service.
If the system was activated for at least seven days, the FCC must issue a preliminary report that includes information about the number, duration, and nature of all associated outages. The FCC must also hold at least one public field hearing in the area affected by the event, and it must issue a final report that includes recommendations for improving the resiliency of affected networks or recovery efforts.
Separately, the FCC must publish a general report on (1) the volume and nature of 9-1-1 outages that are not required to be reported under current outage notification rules, and (2) the value to public safety agencies of the inclusion of visual information in outage notifications from communications providers.
The bill also requires the Office of Management and Budget, by 30 days after the bill's enactment, to categorize public safety telecommunicators as a protective service occupation under the Standard Occupational Classification System.
Finally, the Office of the Inspector General of the FCC is directed to publish a report on the implementation of Kari’s Law, which requires multiline telephone systems to be preconfigured to allow users to dial 9-1-1 directly from any phone without dialing any additional code or prefix.

Enhancing First Response Act
- Display Title
45

Enhancing First Response Act
2025-09-12T11:03:19Z
- Short Title(s) as Passed Senate
105

Enhancing First Response Act
2025-09-11T04:53:20Z
S
Senate
Engrossed in Senate
ES
- Short Title(s) as Reported to Senate
103

Enhancing First Response Act
2025-09-04T02:08:18Z
S
Senate
Reported to Senate
RS
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
101

Enhancing First Response Act
2025-03-21T04:38:21Z
Introduced in Senate
IS
- Official Title as Introduced
6

A bill to direct the Federal Communications Commission to issue reports after activation of the Disaster Information Reporting System and to make improvements to network outage reporting, to categorize public safety telecommunicators as a protective service occupation under the Standard Occupational Classification system, and for other purposes.
2025-03-21T04:34:00Z
Introduced in Senate
IS
- Engrossed in Senate
2025-09-10T04:00:00Z
  - https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119s725es/xml/BILLS-119s725es.xml
- Reported to Senate
2025-09-02T04:00:00Z
  - https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119s725rs/xml/BILLS-119s725rs.xml
- Introduced in Senate
2025-02-25T05:00:00Z
  - https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119s725is/xml/BILLS-119s725is.xml
2025-09-11
Held at the desk.
11:21:00
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