[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2431 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2431

    To require the Federal Communications Commission to promulgate 
regulations requiring voice service providers to provide consumers opt-
       out call-blocking programs by default and free of charge.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             August 1, 2019

Mr. Manchin (for himself and Mr. Jones) 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 require the Federal Communications Commission to promulgate 
regulations requiring voice service providers to provide consumers opt-
       out call-blocking programs by default and free of charge.

    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 ``Stop Unwanted Calls for All Act''.

SEC. 2. CALL-BLOCKING PROGRAMS.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Call-blocking program.--The term ``call-blocking 
        program'' means a call-blocking program described in the 
        Declaratory Ruling in the matter of Advanced Methods to Target 
        and Eliminate Unlawful Robocalls, adopted by the Commission on 
        June 6, 2019 (FCC 19-51; CG Docket No. 17-59).
            (2) Commission.--The term ``Commission'' means the Federal 
        Communications Commission.
    (b) Regulations.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
        enactment of this Act, the Commission shall promulgate 
        regulations to require voice service providers to provide 
        consumers opt-out call-blocking programs by default and free of 
        charge.
            (2) Delayed implementation for small and rural providers.--
        The Commission shall delay by 1 year the applicability of the 
        regulations promulgated under paragraph (1) to small voice 
        service providers and rural voice service providers, as defined 
        by the Commission.
            (3) Exempted calls.--The Commission, in consultation with 
        voice service providers, shall ensure that the call-blocking 
        programs required under the regulations promulgated under 
        paragraph (1) do not block calls that are exempted from the 
        prohibitions under section 227 of the Communications Act of 
        1934 (47 U.S.C. 227).
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