[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 819 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 819

  To modernize the reporting requirement under the Telephone Consumer 
                        Protection Act of 1991.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 14, 2019

 Mr. Moran (for himself and Mr. Schatz) 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 modernize the reporting requirement under the Telephone Consumer 
                        Protection Act of 1991.

    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 ``Federal Communications Commission 
Reporting Modernization Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. TCPA ENFORCEMENT REPORT.

    Section 227(h) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 227(h)) 
is amended to read as follows:
    ``(h) TCPA Enforcement Report.--The Commission shall submit an 
annual report to Congress regarding the enforcement during the 
preceding year of laws, regulations, and policies relating to robocalls 
and spoofed calls, which report shall include--
            ``(1) the number of complaints received by the Commission 
        during the year alleging that a consumer received a robocall or 
        spoofed call;
            ``(2) the number of citations issued by the Commission 
        pursuant to section 503 during the year to enforce any law, 
        regulation, or policy relating to a robocall or spoofed call;
            ``(3) the number of notices of apparent liability issued by 
        the Commission pursuant to section 503 during the year to 
        enforce any law, regulation, or policy relating to a robocall 
        or spoofed call; and
            ``(4) for each notice referred to in paragraph (3)--
                    ``(A) the amount of the proposed forfeiture penalty 
                involved;
                    ``(B) the person to whom the notice was issued; and
                    ``(C) the status of the proceeding.''.
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