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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2386 

To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to provide for information sharing 

regarding robocall and spoofing violations, to authorize the provision 

of a robocall blocking service with opt-out customer approval, and to 

provide for a study on information requirements for certain VoIP service 

providers. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

APRIL 29, 2019 

Mr. LATTA (for himself and Mr. MICHAEL F. DOYLE of Pennsylvania) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy 

and Commerce 

A BILL 

To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to provide for 

information sharing regarding robocall and spoofing violations, to authorize the provision of a robocall blocking 

service with opt-out customer approval, and to provide 

for a study on information requirements for certain VoIP 

service providers. 

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 ‘‘Support Tools to Oblit5 erate Pesky Robocalls Act’’ or the ‘‘STOP Robocalls Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. INFORMATION SHARING REGARDING ROBOCALL 

2 AND SPOOFING VIOLATIONS. 

3 Section 227 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 

4 U.S.C. 227) is amended by adding at the end the fol5 lowing: 

6 ‘‘(i) INFORMATION SHARING.—Not later than 18 

7 months after the date of the enactment of this subsection, 

8 the Commission shall promulgate regulations to establish 

9 a process that streamlines the ways in which a private en10 tity may voluntarily share with the Commission informa11 tion relating to— 

12 ‘‘(1) a call made or a text message sent in vio13 lation of subsection (b); or 

14 ‘‘(2) a call or text message for which misleading 

15 or inaccurate caller identification information was 

16 caused to be transmitted in violation of subsection 

17 (e).’’. 

18 SEC. 3. ROBOCALL BLOCKING SERVICE WITH OPT-OUT CUS19 TOMER APPROVAL. 

20 Section 227 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 

21 U.S.C. 227), as amended by section 2, is further amended 

22 by adding at the end the following: 

23 ‘‘(j) ROBOCALL BLOCKING SERVICE WITH OPT-OUT

24 CUSTOMER APPROVAL.— 

25 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—A voice service provider 

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1 tomer on an informed opt-out basis if the provider 

2 does not charge a fee in exchange for such service. 

3 ‘‘(2) RULES OF CONSTRUCTION.— 

4 ‘‘(A) INFORMED OPT-IN BASIS.—Nothing 

5 in this subsection shall be construed to prohibit 

6 a voice service provider from providing a 

7 robocall blocking service to customers on an in8 formed opt-in basis, whether or not in exchange 

9 for a fee. 

10 ‘‘(B) BLOCKING CALLS WITHOUT CUS11 TOMER CONSENT.—Nothing in this subsection 

12 shall be construed to prohibit a voice service 

13 provider from blocking calls without customer 

14 consent as provided by rule or order of the 

15 Commission. 

16 ‘‘(3) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 

17 ‘‘(A) ROBOCALL BLOCKING SERVICE.—The 

18 term ‘robocall blocking service’ means a service 

19 or technology that enables a voice service cus20 tomer to avoid receiving calls made in violation 

21 of subsection (b). 

22 ‘‘(B) VOICE SERVICE.—The term ‘voice 

23 service’ has the meaning given such term in 

24 subsection (e)(8). This subparagraph shall 

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1 ment made to such subsection by subparagraph 

2 (C) of section 503(a)(2) of division P of the 

3 Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 (Public 

4 Law 115–141) as if such amendment was al5 ready in effect.’’. 

6 SEC. 4. STUDY ON INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS FOR CER7 TAIN VOIP SERVICE PROVIDERS. 

8 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Federal Communications 

9 Commission shall conduct a study regarding whether to 

10 require a provider of covered VoIP service to— 

11 (1) provide to the Commission contact informa12 tion for such provider and keep such information 

13 current; and 

14 (2) retain records relating to each call trans15 mitted over the covered VoIP service of such pro16 vider that are sufficient to trace such call back to 

17 the source of such call. 

18 (b) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 18 

19 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 

20 Commission shall submit to Congress a report on the re21 sults of the study conducted under subsection (a). 

22 (c) COVERED VOIP SERVICE DEFINED.—In this sec23 tion, the term ‘‘covered VoIP service’’ means a service 

24 that— 


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1 (1) is an interconnected VoIP service (as de2 fined in section 3 of the Communications Act of 

3 1934 (47 U.S.C. 153)); or 

4 (2) would be an interconnected VoIP service (as 

5 so defined) except that the service permits users to 

6 terminate calls to the public switched telephone net7 work but does not permit users to receive calls that 

8 originate on the public switched telephone network. 

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