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Union Calendar No. 630 

114TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 2669 

[Report No. 114–806] 

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 

NOVEMBER 14, 2016 

Additional sponsors: Mr. KINZINGER of Illinois, Mr. GUTHRIE, Mr. MEEKS, 

Mr. RUSH, Mr. WELCH, Mr. BUTTERFIELD, Ms. ESHOO, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. BILIRAKIS, Mr. PASCRELL, Ms. MATSUI, Mr. CRAMER, Mrs. 

ELLMERS of North Carolina, Mr. BEN RAY LUJA ́N of New Mexico, Mr. 

JOHNSON of Ohio, Mr. OLSON, Mr. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY of New 

York, Mr. LATTA, Mr. COLLINS of New York, Mr. DESAULNIER, Mr. 

TED LIEU of California, Mr. ZELDIN, Mr. BEYER, and Mr. LANGEVIN

NOVEMBER 14, 2016 

Reported with amendments, 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] 

[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on June 4, 2015] 


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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. 


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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 2016’’. 

6 SEC. 2. SPOOFING PREVENTION. 

7 (a) EXPANDING AND CLARIFYING PROHIBITION ON

8 MISLEADING OR INACCURATE CALLER IDENTIFICATION IN9 FORMATION.— 

10 (1) COMMUNICATIONS FROM OUTSIDE THE

11 UNITED STATES.—Section 227(e)(1) of the Commu12 nications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 227(e)(1)) is amend13 ed by striking ‘‘in connection with any telecommuni14 cations service or IP-enabled voice service’’ and in15 serting ‘‘or any person outside the United States if 

16 the recipient is within the United States, in connec17 tion with any voice service or text messaging service’’. 

18 (2) COVERAGE OF TEXT MESSAGES AND VOICE

19 SERVICES.—Section 227(e)(8) of the Communications 

20 Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 227(e)(8)) is amended— 

21 (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘tele22 communications service or IP-enabled voice serv23 ice’’ and inserting ‘‘voice service or a text mes24 sage sent using a text messaging service’’; 


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1 (B) in the first sentence of subparagraph 

2 (B), by striking ‘‘telecommunications service or 

3 IP-enabled voice service’’ and inserting ‘‘voice 

4 service or a text message sent using a text mes5 saging service’’; and 

6 (C) by striking subparagraph (C) and in7 serting the following: 

8 ‘‘(C) TEXT MESSAGE.—The term ‘text mes9 sage’— 

10 ‘‘(i) means a message consisting of 

11 text, images, sounds, or other information 

12 that is transmitted to or from a device that 

13 is identified as the receiving or transmit14 ting device by means of a 10-digit telephone 

15 number or N11 service code; 

16 ‘‘(ii) includes a short message service 

17 (commonly referred to as ‘SMS’) message 

18 and a multimedia message service (com19 monly referred to as ‘MMS’) message; and 

20 ‘‘(iii) does not include— 

21 ‘‘(I) a real-time, 2-way voice or 

22 video communication; or 

23 ‘‘(II) a message sent over an IP24 enabled messaging service to another 


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1 user of the same messaging service, ex2 cept a message described in clause (ii). 

3 ‘‘(D) TEXT MESSAGING SERVICE.—The term 

4 ‘text messaging service’ means a service that en5 ables the transmission or receipt of a text mes6 sage, including a service provided as part of or 

7 in connection with a voice service. 

8 ‘‘(E) VOICE SERVICE.—The term ‘voice serv9 ice’— 

10 ‘‘(i) means any service that is inter11 connected with the public switched telephone 

12 network and that furnishes voice commu13 nications to an end user using resources 

14 from the North American Numbering Plan 

15 or any successor to the North American 

16 Numbering Plan adopted by the Commis17 sion under section 251(e)(1); and 

18 ‘‘(ii) includes transmissions from a 

19 telephone facsimile machine, computer, or 

20 other device to a telephone facsimile ma21 chine.’’. 

22 (3) TECHNICAL AMENDMENT.—Section 227(e) of 

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

24 is amended in the heading by inserting ‘‘MISLEADING

25 OR’’ before ‘‘INACCURATE’’. 


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1 (4) REGULATIONS.— 

2 (A) IN GENERAL.—Section 227(e)(3)(A) of 

3 the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 

4 227(e)(3)(A)) is amended by striking ‘‘Not later 

5 than 6 months after the date of enactment of the 

6 Truth in Caller ID Act of 2009, the Commis7 sion’’ and inserting ‘‘The Commission’’. 

8 (B) DEADLINE.—The Commission shall pre9 scribe regulations to implement the amendments 

10 made by this subsection not later than 18 months 

11 after the date of enactment of this Act. 

12 (5) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made 

13 by this subsection shall take effect on the date that is 

14 6 months after the date on which the Commission pre15 scribes regulations under paragraph (4). 

16 (b) CONSUMER EDUCATION MATERIALS ON HOW TO

17 AVOID SCAMS THAT RELY UPON MISLEADING OR INAC18 CURATE CALLER IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION.— 

19 (1) DEVELOPMENT OF MATERIALS.—Not later 

20 than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, 

21 the Commission, in coordination with the Federal 

22 Trade Commission, shall develop consumer education 

23 materials that provide information about— 

24 (A) ways for consumers to identify scams 

25 and other fraudulent activity that rely upon the 


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1 use of misleading or inaccurate caller identifica2 tion information; and 

3 (B) existing technologies, if any, that a con4 sumer can use to protect against such scams and 

5 other fraudulent activity. 

6 (2) CONTENTS.—In developing the consumer 

7 education materials under paragraph (1), the Com8 mission shall— 

9 (A) identify existing technologies, if any, 

10 that can help consumers guard themselves 

11 against scams and other fraudulent activity that 

12 rely upon the use of misleading or inaccurate 

13 caller identification information, including— 

14 (i) descriptions of how a consumer can 

15 use the technologies to protect against such 

16 scams and other fraudulent activity; and 

17 (ii) details on how consumers can ac18 cess and use the technologies; and 

19 (B) provide other information that may 

20 help consumers identify and avoid scams and 

21 other fraudulent activity that rely upon the use 

22 of misleading or inaccurate caller identification 

23 information. 


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1 (3) UPDATES.—The Commission shall ensure 

2 that the consumer education materials required under 

3 paragraph (1) are updated on a regular basis. 

4 (4) WEBSITE.—The Commission shall include 

5 the consumer education materials developed under 

6 paragraph (1) on its website. 

7 (c) GAO REPORT ON COMBATING THE FRAUDULENT

8 PROVISION OF MISLEADING OR INACCURATE CALLER IDEN9 TIFICATION INFORMATION.— 

10 (1) IN GENERAL.—The Comptroller General of 

11 the United States shall conduct a study of the actions 

12 the Commission and the Federal Trade Commission 

13 have taken to combat the fraudulent provision of mis14 leading or inaccurate caller identification informa15 tion, and the additional measures that could be taken 

16 to combat such activity. 

17 (2) REQUIRED CONSIDERATIONS.—In conducting 

18 the study under paragraph (1), the Comptroller Gen19 eral shall examine— 

20 (A) trends in the types of scams that rely 

21 on misleading or inaccurate caller identification 

22 information; 

23 (B) previous and current enforcement ac24 tions by the Commission and the Federal Trade 

25 Commission to combat the practices prohibited 


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1 by section 227(e)(1) of the Communications Act 

2 of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 227(e)(1)); 

3 (C) current efforts by industry groups and 

4 other entities to develop technical standards to 

5 deter or prevent the fraudulent provision of mis6 leading or inaccurate caller identification infor7 mation, and how such standards may help com8 bat the current and future provision of mis9 leading or inaccurate caller identification infor10 mation; and 

11 (D) whether there are additional actions the 

12 Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, and 

13 Congress should take to combat the fraudulent 

14 provision of misleading or inaccurate caller 

15 identification information. 

16 (3) REPORT.—Not later than 18 months after the 

17 date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General 

18 shall submit to the Committee on Energy and Com19 merce of the House of Representatives and the Com20 mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of 

21 the Senate a report on the findings of the study under 

22 paragraph (1), including any recommendations re23 garding combating the fraudulent provision of mis24 leading or inaccurate caller identification informa25 tion. 


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1 (d) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec2 tion, or the amendments made by this section, shall be con3 strued to modify, limit, or otherwise affect any rule or order 

4 adopted by the Commission in connection with— 

5 (1) the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 

6 1991 (Public Law 102–243; 105 Stat. 2394) or the 

7 amendments made by that Act; or 

8 (2) the CAN–SPAM Act of 2003 (15 U.S.C. 7701 

9 et seq.). 

10 (e) COMMISSION DEFINED.—In this section, the term 

11 ‘‘Commission’’ means the Federal Communications Com12 mission. 

Amend the title so as to read: ‘‘A bill amend the 

Communications Act of 1934 to expand and clarify the 

prohibition on provision of misleading or inaccurate caller 

identification information, and for other purposes.’’. 


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Union Calendar No. 630 

114TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 2669 

[Report No. 114–806] 

A BILL 

To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to exfor other purposes. inaccurate caller identification information, and pand and clarify the prohibition on provision of 

NOVEMBER 14, 2016 

Reported with amendments, committed to the Committee 

dered to be printed of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and orVerDate Sep 11 2014 23:54 Nov 14, 2016 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 6651 Sfmt 6651 E:\BILLS\H2669.RH H2669

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