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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 7124 

To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to direct the Federal Communications Commission to promulgate regulations that require providers of 

voice service to offer a robocall-blocking service at no additional charge 

to the customer, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 29, 2024 

Mr. SOTO introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 

on Energy and Commerce 

A BILL 

To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to direct the 

Federal Communications Commission to promulgate regulations that require providers of voice service to offer 

a robocall-blocking service at no additional charge to 

the customer, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Roboblock Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. OFFERING OF ROBOCALL-BLOCKING SERVICE AT 

2 NO CHARGE TO CUSTOMER. 

3 Section 227 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 

4 U.S.C. 227) is amended by adding at the end the fol5 lowing: 

6 ‘‘(k) OFFERING OF ROBOCALL-BLOCKING SERVICE

7 AT NO CHARGE TO CUSTOMER.— 

8 ‘‘(1) REGULATIONS.—Not later than 180 days 

9 after the date of the enactment of this subsection, 

10 the Commission shall promulgate regulations that 

11 require a provider of voice service to offer a robocall12 blocking service to each customer of the provider, at 

13 no additional charge to the customer. 

14 ‘‘(2) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 

15 ‘‘(A) ROBOCALL.— 

16 ‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—The term 

17 ‘robocall’ means a call made or text mes18 sage sent— 

19 ‘‘(I) using equipment, whether 

20 hardware, software, or a combination 

21 thereof and including an automatic 

22 telephone dialing system, that makes 

23 a call or sends a text message to— 

24 ‘‘(aa) stored telephone num25 bers; or 


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1 ‘‘(bb) telephone numbers 

2 produced using a random or se3 quential number generator; or 

4 ‘‘(II) using an artificial or 

5 prerecorded voice or an artificially 

6 generated message. 

7 ‘‘(ii) LIMITATION.—For purposes of 

8 clause (i)(I), the term ‘robocall’ does not 

9 include a call made or text message sent 

10 using equipment that requires substantial 

11 human intervention to make or send the 

12 call or text message. 

13 ‘‘(B) ROBOCALL-BLOCKING SERVICE.—The 

14 term ‘robocall-blocking service’ means a service 

15 that gives a customer of a provider of voice 

16 service the ability to block robocalls that are 

17 highly likely to be illegal. 

18 ‘‘(C) TEXT MESSAGE.— 

19 ‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘text 

20 message’ means a message consisting of 

21 text, images, sounds, or other information 

22 that is transmitted to or from a device that 

23 is identified as the receiving or transmit24 ting device by means of a 10-digit tele25 phone number, N11 service code, short 


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1 code telephone number, or email address, 

2 or that is transmitted through application3 to-person messaging, and includes— 

4 ‘‘(I) a short message service 

5 (commonly referred to as ‘SMS’) mes6 sage; 

7 ‘‘(II) a multimedia message serv8 ice (commonly referred to as ‘MMS’) 

9 message; and 

10 ‘‘(III) a rich communication serv11 ice (commonly referred to as ‘RCS’) 

12 message. 

13 ‘‘(ii) LIMITATION.—The term ‘text 

14 message’ does not include a real-time, two15 way voice or video communication. 

16 ‘‘(D) VOICE SERVICE.—The term ‘voice 

17 service’ has the meaning given such term in 

18 section 4(a) of the Pallone-Thune TRACED 

19 Act (47 U.S.C. 227b(a)).’’. 

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