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113TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 3670 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014 

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

and Transportation 

AN ACT 

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, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Anti-Spoofing Act of 

3 2014’’. 

4 SEC. 2. EXPANDING AND CLARIFYING PROHIBITION ON IN5 ACCURATE CALLER ID INFORMATION. 

6 (a) COMMUNICATIONS FROM OUTSIDE UNITED

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

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

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

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

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

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

13 is amended— 

14 (1) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ‘‘(includ15 ing a text message sent using a text messaging serv16 ice)’’ before the period at the end; 

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

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

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

20 end; and 

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

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

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

24 message consisting of text, images, sounds, or 

25 other information that is transmitted from or 

26 received by a device that is identified as the 


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1 transmitting or receiving device by means of a 

2 telephone number. Such term— 

3 ‘‘(i) includes a short message service 

4 (SMS) message, an enhanced message 

5 service (EMS) message, and a multimedia 

6 message service (MMS) message; and 

7 ‘‘(ii) does not include a real-time, two8 way voice or video communication. 

9 ‘‘(E) TEXT MESSAGING SERVICE.—The 

10 term ‘text messaging service’ means a service 

11 that permits the transmission or receipt of a 

12 text message, including a service provided as 

13 part of or in connection with a telecommuni14 cations service or an IP-enabled voice service.’’. 

15 (c) COVERAGE OF OUTGOING-CALL-ONLY IP-EN16 ABLED VOICE SERVICE.—Section 227(e)(8)(C) of the 

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

18 amended by striking ‘‘has the meaning’’ and all that fol19 lows and inserting ‘‘means the provision of real-time voice 

20 communications offered to the public, or such class of 

21 users as to be effectively available to the public, trans22 mitted using Internet protocol, or a successor protocol, 

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

24 interconnection capability such that the service can origiVerDate Mar 15 2010 22:26 Sep 10, 2014 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H3670.RFS H3670

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1 nate traffic to, or terminate traffic from, the public 

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

3 (d) REGULATIONS.— 

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

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

6 227(e)(3)(A)) is amended by striking ‘‘Not later 

7 than 6 months after the date of enactment of the 

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

9 and inserting ‘‘The Commission’’. 

10 (2) DEADLINE.—The Federal Communications 

11 Commission shall prescribe regulations to implement 

12 the amendments made by this section not later than 

13 18 months after the date of the enactment of this 

14 Act. 

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

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

17 after the date on which the Federal Communications Com18 mission prescribes regulations to implement the amend19 ments made by this section. 

Passed the House of Representatives September 9, 

2014. 

Attest: KAREN L. HAAS, 

Clerk. 


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