IIB 

109TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5126 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JUNE 7, 2006 

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

and Transportation 

AN ACT 

To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit manipulation 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, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

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

3 Act of 2006’’. 

4 SEC. 2. PROHIBITION REGARDING MANIPULATION OF 

5 CALLER IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION. 

6 Section 227 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 

7 U.S.C. 227) is amended— 

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

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

10 (2) by inserting after subsection (d) the fol11 lowing new subsection: 

12 ‘‘(e) PROHIBITION ON PROVISION OF DECEPTIVE

13 CALLER IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION.— 

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

15 person within the United States, in connection with 

16 any telecommunications service or VOIP service, to 

17 cause any caller identification service to transmit 

18 misleading or inaccurate caller identification infor19 mation, with the intent to defraud or cause harm. 

20 ‘‘(2) PROTECTION FOR BLOCKING CALLER

21 IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION.—Nothing in this 

22 subsection may be construed to prevent or restrict 

23 any person from blocking the capability of any caller 

24 identification service to transmit caller identification 

25 information. 


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

2 after the enactment of this subsection, the Commis3 sion shall prescribe regulations to implement this 

4 subsection. 

5 ‘‘(4) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this sub6 section: 

7 ‘‘(A) CALLER IDENTIFICATION INFORMA8 TION.—The term ‘caller identification informa9 tion’ means information provided to an end 

10 user by a caller identification service regarding 

11 the telephone number of, or other information 

12 regarding the origination of, a call made using 

13 a telecommunications service or VOIP service. 

14 ‘‘(B) CALLER IDENTIFICATION SERVICE.— 

15 The term ‘caller identification service’ means 

16 any service or device designed to provide the 

17 user of the service or device with the telephone 

18 number of, or other information regarding the 

19 origination of, a call made using a telecommuni20 cations service or VOIP service. Such term in21 cludes automatic number identification services. 

22 ‘‘(C) VOIP SERVICE.—The term ‘VOIP 

23 service’ means a service that— 

24 ‘‘(i) provides real-time voice commu25 nications transmitted through end user 


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1 equipment using TCP/IP protocol, or a 

2 successor protocol, for a fee or without a 

3 fee; 

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

5 classes of users as to be effectively avail6 able to the public (whether part of a bun7 dle of services or separately); and 

8 ‘‘(iii) has the capability to originate 

9 traffic to, and terminate traffic from, the 

10 public switched telephone network. 

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

12 may be construed to affect or alter the application 

13 of the Commission’s regulations regarding the re14 quirements for transmission of caller identification 

15 information for telemarketing calls, issued pursuant 

16 to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 

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

18 by such Act.’’. 

Passed the House of Representatives June 6, 2006. 

Attest: KAREN L. HAAS, 

Clerk. 


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