IIB 

117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1250 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JULY 21, 2021 

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, 

and Transportation 

AN ACT 

To direct the Federal Communications Commission to issue 

reports after activation of the Disaster Information Reporting System and to make improvements to network 

outage reporting. 

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


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Emergency Reporting 

3 Act’’. 

4 SEC. 2. REPORTS AFTER ACTIVATION OF DISASTER INFOR5 MATION REPORTING SYSTEM; IMPROVE6 MENTS TO NETWORK OUTAGE REPORTING. 

7 (a) REPORTS AFTER ACTIVATION OF DISASTER IN8 FORMATION REPORTING SYSTEM.— 

9 (1) PRELIMINARY REPORT.— 

10 (A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 6 weeks 

11 after the deactivation of the Disaster Informa12 tion Reporting System with respect to an event 

13 for which the System was activated for at least 

14 7 days, the Commission shall issue a prelimi15 nary report on, with respect to such event and 

16 to the extent known— 

17 (i) the number and duration of any 

18 outages of— 

19 (I) broadband internet access 

20 service; 

21 (II) interconnected VoIP service; 

22 (III) commercial mobile service; 

23 and 

24 (IV) commercial mobile data 

25 service; 


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1 (ii) the approximate number of users 

2 or the amount of communications infra3 structure potentially affected by an outage 

4 described in clause (i); 

5 (iii) the number and duration of any 

6 outages at public safety answering points 

7 that prevent public safety answering points 

8 from receiving emergency calls and routing 

9 such calls to emergency service personnel; 

10 and 

11 (iv) any additional information deter12 mined appropriate by the Commission. 

13 (B) DEVELOPMENT OF REPORT.—The 

14 Commission shall develop the report required by 

15 subparagraph (A) using information collected 

16 by the Commission, including information col17 lected by the Commission through the System. 

18 (2) PUBLIC FIELD HEARINGS.— 

19 (A) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 8 

20 months after the deactivation of the Disaster 

21 Information Reporting System with respect to 

22 an event for which the System was activated for 

23 at least 7 days, the Commission shall hold at 

24 least 1 public field hearing in the area affected 

25 by such event. 


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1 (B) INCLUSION OF CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS

2 IN HEARINGS.—For each public field hearing 

3 held under subparagraph (A), the Commission 

4 shall consider including— 

5 (i) representatives of State govern6 ment, local government, or Indian Tribal 

7 governments in areas affected by such 

8 event; 

9 (ii) residents of the areas affected by 

10 such event, or consumer advocates; 

11 (iii) providers of communications serv12 ices affected by such event; 

13 (iv) faculty of institutions of higher 

14 education; 

15 (v) representatives of other Federal 

16 agencies; 

17 (vi) electric utility providers; 

18 (vii) communications infrastructure 

19 companies; and 

20 (viii) first responders, emergency 

21 managers, or 9–1–1 directors in areas af22 fected by such event. 

23 (3) FINAL REPORT.—Not later than 12 months 

24 after the deactivation of the Disaster Information 

25 Reporting System with respect to an event for which 


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1 the System was activated for at least 7 days, the 

2 Commission shall issue a final report that includes, 

3 with respect to such event— 

4 (A) the information described under para5 graph (1)(A); and 

6 (B) any recommendations of the Commis7 sion on how to improve the resiliency of af8 fected communications or networks recovery ef9 forts. 

10 (4) DEVELOPMENT OF REPORTS.—In devel11 oping a report required under this subsection, the 

12 Commission shall consider information collected by 

13 the Commission, including information collected by 

14 the Commission through the System, and any public 

15 hearing described in paragraph (2) with respect to 

16 the applicable event. 

17 (5) PUBLICATION.—The Commission shall pub18 lish each report, excluding information that is other19 wise exempt from public disclosure under the rules 

20 of the Commission, issued under this subsection on 

21 the website of the Commission upon the issuance of 

22 such report. 

23 (b) IMPROVEMENTS TO NETWORK OUTAGE REPORT24 ING.—Not later than 1 year after the date of the enact25 ment of this Act, the Commission shall conduct a proVerDate Sep 11 2014 01:26 Jul 22, 2021 Jkt 019200 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H1250.RFS H1250

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1 ceeding and, after public notice and an opportunity for 

2 comment, adopt rules to— 

3 (1) determine the circumstances under which to 

4 require service providers subject to the 9–1–1 regu5 lations established under part 9 of title 47, Code of 

6 Federal Regulations, to submit a timely notification, 

7 (in an easily accessible format that facilities situa8 tional awareness) to public safety answering points 

9 regarding communications service disruptions within 

10 the assigned territories of such public safety answer11 ing points that prevent— 

12 (A) the origination of 9–1–1 calls; 

13 (B) the delivery of Automatic Location In14 formation; or 

15 (C) Automatic Number Identification; 

16 (2) require such notifications to be made; and 

17 (3) specify the appropriate timing of such noti18 fication. 

19 (c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

20 (1) AUTOMATIC LOCATION INFORMATION; 

21 AUTOMATIC NUMBER IDENTIFICATION.—The terms 

22 ‘‘Automatic Location Information’’ and ‘‘Automatic 

23 Number Identification’’ have the meaning given 

24 those terms in section 9.3 of title 47, Code of Fed25 eral Regulations, or any successor regulation. 


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1 (2) BROADBAND INTERNET ACCESS SERVICE.— 

2 The term ‘‘broadband internet access service’’ has 

3 the meaning given such term in section 8.1(b) of 

4 title 47, Code of Federal Regulations, or any suc5 cessor regulation. 

6 (3) COMMERCIAL MOBILE SERVICE.—The term 

7 ‘‘commercial mobile service’’ has the meaning given 

8 such term in section 332(d) of the Communications 

9 Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 332(d)). 

10 (4) COMMERCIAL MOBILE DATA SERVICE.—The 

11 term ‘‘commercial mobile data service’’ has the 

12 meaning given such term in section 6001 of the Mid13 dle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 

14 (47 U.S.C. 1401). 

15 (5) COMMISSION.—The term ‘‘Commission’’ 

16 means the Federal Communications Commission. 

17 (6) INDIAN TRIBAL GOVERNMENT; LOCAL GOV18 ERNMENT.—The terms ‘‘Indian Tribal government’’ 

19 and ‘‘Indian Tribal Government’’ have the meaning 

20 given those terms in section 102 of the Robert T. 

21 Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance 

22 Act (42 U.S.C. 5121). 

23 (7) INTERCONNECTED VOIP SERVICE.—The 

24 term ‘‘interconnected VoIP service’’ has the meaning 


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1 given such term in section 3 of the Communications 

2 Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 153). 

3 (8) PUBLIC SAFETY ANSWERING POINT.—The 

4 term ‘‘public safety answering point’’ has the mean5 ing given such term in section 222 of the Commu6 nications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 222). 

7 (9) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ has the mean8 ing given such term in section 3 of the Communica9 tions Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 153). 

Passed the House of Representatives July 20, 2021. 

Attest: CHERYL L. JOHNSON, 

Clerk. 


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