[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2787 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2787

     To expand and clarify the prohibition on inaccurate caller ID 
                              information.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 10, 2014

  Ms. Klobuchar (for herself and Mr. Blunt) introduced the following 
 bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, 
                      Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
     To expand and clarify the prohibition on inaccurate caller ID 
                              information.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Caller ID Scam Prevention Act of 
2014''.

SEC. 2. EXPANDING AND CLARIFYING PROHIBITION ON INACCURATE CALLER ID 
              INFORMATION.

    (a) Communications From Outside United States.--Section 227(e)(1) 
of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 227(e)(1)) is amended by 
inserting ``or any person outside the United States if the recipient is 
within the United States,'' after ``United States,''.
    (b) Text Messaging Service.--Section 227(e)(8) of the 
Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 227(e)(8)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ``(including a text 
        message sent using a text messaging service)'' before the 
        period at the end;
            (2) in the first sentence of subparagraph (B), by inserting 
        ``(including a text message sent using a text messaging 
        service)'' before the period at the end; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(D) Text message.--The term `text message'--
                            ``(i) means a real-time or near real-time 
                        message consisting of text, images, sounds, or 
                        other information that is transmitted from or 
                        received by a device that is identified as the 
                        transmitting or receiving device by means of a 
                        telephone number;
                            ``(ii) includes a short message service 
                        (commonly referred to as `SMS') message, an 
                        enhanced message service (commonly referred to 
                        as `EMS') message, and a multimedia message 
                        service (commonly referred to as `MMS') 
                        message; and
                            ``(iii) does not include a real-time, 2-way 
                        voice or video communication.
                    ``(E) Text messaging service.--The term `text 
                messaging service' means a service that permits the 
                transmission or receipt of a text message, including a 
                service provided as part of or in connection with a 
                telecommunications service or an IP-enabled voice 
                service.''.
    (c) Coverage of Outgoing-Call-Only IP-Enabled Voice Service.--
Section 227(e)(8)(C) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 
227(e)(8)(C)) is amended by striking ``has the meaning'' and all that 
follows and inserting ``means the provision of real-time voice 
communications offered to the public, or such class of users as to be 
effectively available to the public, transmitted using Internet 
protocol, or a successor protocol, (whether part of a bundle of 
services or separately) with interconnection capability such that the 
service can originate traffic to, or terminate traffic from, the public 
switched telephone network, or a successor network.''.
    (d) Regulations.--
            (1) In general.--Section 227(e)(3)(A) of the Communications 
        Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 227(e)(3)(A)) is amended by striking 
        ``Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of the 
        Truth in Caller ID Act of 2009, the Commission'' and inserting 
        ``The Commission''.
            (2) Deadline.--Not later than 18 months after the date of 
        enactment of this Act, the Federal Communications Commission 
        shall prescribe regulations to implement the amendments made by 
        this section.
    (e) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall take 
effect on the date that is 6 months after the date on which the Federal 
Communications Commission prescribes regulations to implement the 
amendments made by this section.
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