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                                                 Union Calendar No. 112
110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 251

                          [Report No. 110-188]

  To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit manipulation of 
       caller identification information, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 5, 2007

    Mr. Engel (for himself and Mr. Barton of Texas) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                                Commerce

                             June 11, 2007

Additional sponsors: Mr. Inslee, Mr. Towns, Mr. Burton of Indiana, Mr. 
    Boucher, Mr. English of Pennsylvania, Mr. McHugh, Mrs. McMorris 
Rodgers, Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas, Mr. Sensenbrenner, Mrs. Schmidt, Mr. 
    Reichert, Mr. Fossella, Mr. Davis of Kentucky, Mr. Calvert, Mr. 
 Shimkus, Mr. Buyer, Mrs. Myrick, Mr. Dicks, Mr. Kuhl of New York, Mr. 
 Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania, Mr. Gillmor, Ms. Shea-Porter, Mrs. Lowey, 
  Mr. Gallegly, Mrs. Cubin, Mr. Gordon of Tennessee, Ms. Matsui, Mr. 
                Carnahan, Ms. Eshoo, and Mrs. Blackburn

                             June 11, 2007

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit manipulation of 
       caller identification information, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

<DELETED>SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    This Act may be cited as the ``Truth in Caller ID Act of 
2007''.</DELETED>

<DELETED>SEC. 2. PROHIBITION REGARDING MANIPULATION OF CALLER 
              IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Section 227 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 
227) is amended--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) by redesignating subsections (e), (f), and (g) 
        as subsections (f), (g), and (h), respectively; and</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) by inserting after subsection (d) the 
        following new subsection:</DELETED>
<DELETED>    ``(e) Prohibition on Provision of Deceptive Caller 
Identification Information.--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(1) In general.--It shall be unlawful for any 
        person within the United States, in connection with any 
        telecommunications service or VOIP service, to cause any caller 
        identification service to transmit misleading or inaccurate 
        caller identification information, with the intent to defraud 
        or cause harm.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(2) Protection for blocking caller 
        identification information.--Nothing in this subsection may be 
        construed to prevent or restrict any person from blocking the 
        capability of any caller identification service to transmit 
        caller identification information.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(3) Regulations.--Not later than 6 months after 
        the enactment of this subsection, the Commission shall 
        prescribe regulations to implement this subsection.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(4) Definitions.--For purposes of this 
        subsection:</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(A) Caller identification information.--
                The term `caller identification information' means 
                information provided to an end user by a caller 
                identification service regarding the telephone number 
                of, or other information regarding the origination of, 
                a call made using a telecommunications service or VOIP 
                service.</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(B) Caller identification service.--The 
                term `caller identification service' means any service 
                or device designed to provide the user of the service 
                or device with the telephone number of, or other 
                information regarding the origination of, a call made 
                using a telecommunications service or VOIP service. 
                Such term includes automatic number identification 
                services.</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(C) VOIP service.--The term `VOIP 
                service' means a service that--</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(i) provides real-time voice 
                        communications transmitted through end user 
                        equipment using TCP/IP protocol, or a successor 
                        protocol, for a fee or without a fee;</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(ii) is offered to the public, 
                        or such classes of users as to be effectively 
                        available to the public (whether part of a 
                        bundle of services or separately); 
                        and</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(iii) has the capability to 
                        originate traffic to, and terminate traffic 
                        from, the public switched telephone 
                        network.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(5) Savings provision.--Nothing in this Act may 
        be construed to affect or alter the application of the 
        Commission's regulations regarding the requirements for 
        transmission of caller identification information for 
        telemarketing calls, issued pursuant to the Telephone Consumer 
        Protection Act of 1991 (Public Law 102-243) and the amendments 
        made by such Act.''.</DELETED>

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Truth in Caller ID Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION REGARDING MANIPULATION OF CALLER IDENTIFICATION 
              INFORMATION.

    Section 227 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 227) is 
amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsections (e), (f), and (g) as 
        subsections (f), (g), and (h), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (d) the following new 
        subsection:
    ``(e) Prohibition on Provision of Deceptive Caller Identification 
Information.--
            ``(1) In general.--It shall be unlawful for any person 
        within the United States, in connection with any 
        telecommunications service or VOIP service, to cause any caller 
        identification service to transmit misleading or inaccurate 
        caller identification information, with the intent to defraud 
        or cause harm.
            ``(2) Protection for blocking caller identification 
        information.--Nothing in this subsection may be construed to 
        prevent or restrict any person from blocking the capability of 
        any caller identification service to transmit caller 
        identification information.
            ``(3) Regulations.--
                    ``(A) Deadline.--Not later than 6 months after the 
                enactment of this subsection, the Commission shall 
                prescribe regulations to implement this subsection.
                    ``(B) Consideration of related regulations.--In 
                conducting the proceeding to prescribe the regulations 
                required by subparagraph (A) of this paragraph, the 
                Commission shall examine whether the Commission's 
                regulations under subsection (b)(2)(B) of this section 
                should be revised to require non-commercial calls to 
                residential telephone lines using an artificial or pre-
                recorded voice to deliver a message to transmit caller 
                identification information that is not misleading or 
                inaccurate.
            ``(4) Definitions.--For purposes of this subsection:
                    ``(A) Caller identification information.--The term 
                `caller identification information' means information 
                provided to an end user by a caller identification 
                service regarding the telephone number of, or other 
                information regarding the origination of, a call made 
                using a telecommunications service or VOIP service.
                    ``(B) Caller identification service.--The term 
                `caller identification service' means any service or 
                device designed to provide the user of the service or 
                device with the telephone number of, or other 
                information regarding the origination of, a call made 
                using a telecommunications service or VOIP service. 
                Such term includes automatic number identification 
                services.
                    ``(C) VOIP service.--The term `VOIP service' means 
                a service that--
                            ``(i) provides real-time voice 
                        communications transmitted through end user 
                        equipment using TCP/IP protocol, or a successor 
                        protocol, for a fee or without a fee;
                            ``(ii) is offered to the public, or such 
                        classes of users as to be effectively available 
                        to the public (whether part of a bundle of 
                        services or separately); and
                            ``(iii) has the capability to originate 
                        traffic to, or terminate traffic from, the 
                        public switched telephone network.
            ``(5) Savings provision.--Except for paragraph (3)(B), 
        nothing in this subsection may be construed to affect or alter 
        the application of the Commission's regulations regarding the 
        requirements for transmission of caller identification 
        information, issued pursuant to the Telephone Consumer 
        Protection Act of 1991 (Public Law 102-243) and the amendments 
        made by such Act.''.
                                                 Union Calendar No. 112

110th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                               H. R. 251

                          [Report No. 110-188]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

  To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit manipulation of 
       caller identification information, and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

                             June 11, 2007

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed