[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2669 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2669

   To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to expand and clarify the 
     prohibition on provision of inaccurate caller identification 
                  information, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 4, 2015

   Ms. Meng (for herself, Mr. Barton, and Mr. Lance) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                                Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to expand and clarify the 
     prohibition on provision of inaccurate 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,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Anti-Spoofing Act of 2015''.

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' 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. Such term--
                            ``(i) includes a short message service 
                        (SMS) message, an enhanced message service 
                        (EMS) message, and a multimedia message service 
                        (MMS) message; and
                            ``(ii) does not include a real-time, two-
                        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.--The Federal Communications Commission shall 
        prescribe regulations to implement the amendments made by this 
        section not later than 18 months after the date of the 
        enactment of this Act.
    (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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