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Union Calendar No. 112 

110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 251 

[Report No. 110–188] 

To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit manipulation of 

caller identification information, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 5, 2007 

Mr. ENGEL (for himself and Mr. BARTON of Texas) introduced the following 

bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 

JUNE 11, 2007 

Additional sponsors: Mr. INSLEE, Mr. TOWNS, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mr. 

BOUCHER, Mr. ENGLISH of Pennsylvania, Mr. MCHUGH, Mrs. 

MCMORRIS RODGERS, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, Mr. SENSENBRENNER, Mrs. SCHMIDT, Mr. REICHERT, Mr. FOSSELLA, Mr. DAVIS of 

Kentucky, Mr. CALVERT, Mr. SHIMKUS, Mr. BUYER, Mrs. MYRICK, Mr. 

DICKS, Mr. KUHL of New York, Mr. TIM MURPHY of Pennsylvania, Mr. 

GILLMOR, Ms. SHEA-PORTER, Mrs. LOWEY, Mr. GALLEGLY, Mrs. CUBIN, 

Mr. GORDON of Tennessee, Ms. MATSUI, Mr. CARNAHAN, Ms. ESHOO, 

and Mrs. BLACKBURN

JUNE 11, 2007 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 

House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 

[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 

A BILL 

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nipulation of caller identification information, 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 ‘‘Truth in Caller ID 

5 Act of 2007’’. 

6 SEC. 2. PROHIBITION REGARDING MANIPULATION OF 

7 CALLER IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION. 

8 Section 227 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 

9 U.S.C. 227) is amended— 

10 (1) by redesignating subsections (e), (f), and 

11 (g) as subsections (f), (g), and (h), respectively; and 

12 (2) by inserting after subsection (d) the fol13 lowing new subsection: 

14 ‘‘(e) PROHIBITION ON PROVISION OF DECEPTIVE

15 CALLER IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION.— 

16 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—It shall be unlawful for any 

17 person within the United States, in connection with 

18 any telecommunications service or VOIP service, to 

19 cause any caller identification service to transmit 

20 misleading or inaccurate caller identification infor21 mation, with the intent to defraud or cause harm. 

22 ‘‘(2) PROTECTION FOR BLOCKING CALLER

23 IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION.—Nothing in this 

24 subsection may be construed to prevent or restrict 


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1 any person from blocking the capability of any caller 

2 identification service to transmit caller identification 

3 information. 

4 ‘‘(3) REGULATIONS.—Not later than 6 months 

5 after the enactment of this subsection, the Commis6 sion shall prescribe regulations to implement this 

7 subsection. 

8 ‘‘(4) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this sub9 section: 

10 ‘‘(A) CALLER IDENTIFICATION INFORMA11 TION.—The term ‘caller identification informa12 tion’ means information provided to an end 

13 user by a caller identification service regarding 

14 the telephone number of, or other information 

15 regarding the origination of, a call made using 

16 a telecommunications service or VOIP service. 

17 ‘‘(B) CALLER IDENTIFICATION SERVICE.— 

18 The term ‘caller identification service’ means 

19 any service or device designed to provide the 

20 user of the service or device with the telephone 

21 number of, or other information regarding the 

22 origination of, a call made using a telecommuni23 cations service or VOIP service. Such term in24 cludes automatic number identification services. 


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1 ‘‘(C) VOIP SERVICE.—The term ‘VOIP 

2 service’ means a service that— 

3 ‘‘(i) provides real-time voice commu4 nications transmitted through end user 

5 equipment using TCP/IP protocol, or a 

6 successor protocol, for a fee or without a 

7 fee; 

8 ‘‘(ii) is offered to the public, or such 

9 classes of users as to be effectively avail10 able to the public (whether part of a bun11 dle of services or separately); and 

12 ‘‘(iii) has the capability to originate 

13 traffic to, and terminate traffic from, the 

14 public switched telephone network. 

15 ‘‘(5) SAVINGS PROVISION.—Nothing in this Act 

16 may be construed to affect or alter the application 

17 of the Commission’s regulations regarding the re18 quirements for transmission of caller identification 

19 information for telemarketing calls, issued pursuant 

20 to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 

21 (Public Law 102–243) and the amendments made 

22 by such Act.’’. 

23 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

24 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Truth in Caller ID Act 

25 of 2007’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. PROHIBITION REGARDING MANIPULATION OF CALL2 ER IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION. 

3 Section 227 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 

4 U.S.C. 227) is amended— 

5 (1) by redesignating subsections (e), (f), and (g) 

6 as subsections (f), (g), and (h), respectively; and 

7 (2) by inserting after subsection (d) the following 

8 new subsection: 

9 ‘‘(e) PROHIBITION ON PROVISION OF DECEPTIVE

10 CALLER IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION.— 

11 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—It shall be unlawful for any 

12 person within the United States, in connection with 

13 any telecommunications service or VOIP service, to 

14 cause any caller identification service to transmit 

15 misleading or inaccurate caller identification infor16 mation, with the intent to defraud or cause harm. 

17 ‘‘(2) PROTECTION FOR BLOCKING CALLER IDEN18 TIFICATION INFORMATION.—Nothing in this sub19 section may be construed to prevent or restrict any 

20 person from blocking the capability of any caller 

21 identification service to transmit caller identification 

22 information. 

23 ‘‘(3) REGULATIONS.— 

24 ‘‘(A) DEADLINE.—Not later than 6 months 

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1 mission shall prescribe regulations to implement 

2 this subsection. 

3 ‘‘(B) CONSIDERATION OF RELATED REGULA4 TIONS.—In conducting the proceeding to pre5 scribe the regulations required by subparagraph 

6 (A) of this paragraph, the Commission shall ex7 amine whether the Commission’s regulations 

8 under subsection (b)(2)(B) of this section should 

9 be revised to require non-commercial calls to res10 idential telephone lines using an artificial or 

11 pre-recorded voice to deliver a message to trans12 mit caller identification information that is not 

13 misleading or inaccurate. 

14 ‘‘(4) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this sub15 section: 

16 ‘‘(A) CALLER IDENTIFICATION INFORMA17 TION.—The term ‘caller identification informa18 tion’ means information provided to an end user 

19 by a caller identification service regarding the 

20 telephone number of, or other information re21 garding the origination of, a call made using a 

22 telecommunications service or VOIP service. 

23 ‘‘(B) CALLER IDENTIFICATION SERVICE.— 

24 The term ‘caller identification service’ means 

25 any service or device designed to provide the user 


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1 of the service or device with the telephone number 

2 of, or other information regarding the origina3 tion of, a call made using a telecommunications 

4 service or VOIP service. Such term includes 

5 automatic number identification services. 

6 ‘‘(C) VOIP SERVICE.—The term ‘VOIP 

7 service’ means a service that— 

8 ‘‘(i) provides real-time voice commu9 nications transmitted through end user 

10 equipment using TCP/IP protocol, or a suc11 cessor protocol, for a fee or without a fee; 

12 ‘‘(ii) is offered to the public, or such 

13 classes of users as to be effectively available 

14 to the public (whether part of a bundle of 

15 services or separately); and 

16 ‘‘(iii) has the capability to originate 

17 traffic to, or terminate traffic from, the 

18 public switched telephone network. 

19 ‘‘(5) SAVINGS PROVISION.—Except for paragraph 

20 (3)(B), nothing in this subsection may be construed 

21 to affect or alter the application of the Commission’s 

22 regulations regarding the requirements for trans23 mission of caller identification information, issued 

24 pursuant to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 


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1 1991 (Public Law 102–243) and the amendments 

2 made by such Act.’’. 


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Union Calendar No. 112 

110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 251 

[Report No. 110

–188] 

A BILL 

To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to promation, and for other purposes. hibit manipulation of caller identification inforJUNE 11, 2007 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Comand ordered to be printed mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 


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