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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. 

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 

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. 

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 ‘‘Anti-Spoofing Act of 

5 2015’’. 

6 SEC. 2. EXPANDING AND CLARIFYING PROHIBITION ON IN7 ACCURATE CALLER ID INFORMATION. 

8 (a) COMMUNICATIONS FROM OUTSIDE UNITED

9 STATES.—Section 227(e)(1) of the Communications Act 


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1 of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 227(e)(1)) is amended by inserting 

2 ‘‘or any person outside the United States if the recipient 

3 is within the United States,’’ after ‘‘United States,’’. 

4 (b) TEXT MESSAGING SERVICE.—Section 227(e)(8) 

5 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 227(e)(8)) 

6 is amended— 

7 (1) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ‘‘(includ8 ing a text message sent using a text messaging serv9 ice)’’ before the period at the end; 

10 (2) in the first sentence of subparagraph (B), 

11 by inserting ‘‘(including a text message sent using a 

12 text messaging service)’’ before the period at the 

13 end; and 

14 (3) by adding at the end the following: 

15 ‘‘(D) TEXT MESSAGE.—The term ‘text 

16 message’ means a real-time or near real-time 

17 message consisting of text, images, sounds, or 

18 other information that is transmitted from or 

19 received by a device that is identified as the 

20 transmitting or receiving device by means of a 

21 telephone number. Such term— 

22 ‘‘(i) includes a short message service 

23 (SMS) message, an enhanced message 

24 service (EMS) message, and a multimedia 

25 message service (MMS) message; and 


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1 ‘‘(ii) does not include a real-time, two2 way voice or video communication. 

3 ‘‘(E) TEXT MESSAGING SERVICE.—The 

4 term ‘text messaging service’ means a service 

5 that permits the transmission or receipt of a 

6 text message, including a service provided as 

7 part of or in connection with a telecommuni8 cations service or an IP-enabled voice service.’’. 

9 (c) COVERAGE OF OUTGOING-CALL-ONLY IP-EN10 ABLED VOICE SERVICE.—Section 227(e)(8)(C) of the 

11 Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 227(e)(8)(C)) is 

12 amended by striking ‘‘has the meaning’’ and all that fol13 lows and inserting ‘‘means the provision of real-time voice 

14 communications offered to the public, or such class of 

15 users as to be effectively available to the public, trans16 mitted using Internet protocol, or a successor protocol, 

17 (whether part of a bundle of services or separately) with 

18 interconnection capability such that the service can origi19 nate traffic to, or terminate traffic from, the public 

20 switched telephone network, or a successor network.’’. 

21 (d) REGULATIONS.— 

22 (1) IN GENERAL.—Section 227(e)(3)(A) of the 

23 Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 

24 227(e)(3)(A)) is amended by striking ‘‘Not later 

25 than 6 months after the date of enactment of the 


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1 Truth in Caller ID Act of 2009, the Commission’’ 

2 and inserting ‘‘The Commission’’. 

3 (2) DEADLINE.—The Federal Communications 

4 Commission shall prescribe regulations to implement 

5 the amendments made by this section not later than 

6 18 months after the date of the enactment of this 

7 Act. 

8 (e) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 

9 this section shall take effect on the date that is 6 months 

10 after the date on which the Federal Communications Com11 mission prescribes regulations to implement the amend12 ments made by this section. 

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