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Union Calendar No. 423 

113TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 3670 

[Report No. 113–572] 

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 

DECEMBER 5, 2013 

Ms. MENG (for herself, Mr. BARTON, and Mr. LANCE) introduced the 

following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014 

Additional sponsors: Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. BEN RAY LUJA ́N of New Mexico, 

Ms. MATSUI, Mr. DINGELL, Mr. MEEKS, Mr. CUMMINGS, Mr. DELANEY, 

Ms. EDWARDS, Mrs. ELLMERS, Ms. ESHOO, Mr. LATTA, Mr. GUTHRIE, 

Mr. SHIMKUS, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. SARBANES, Mr. BRALEY of Iowa, Mr. 

KINZINGER of Illinois, Mr. WELCH, Mr. WALDEN, Mr. LONG, Mr. LANGEVIN, and Mr. RUSH

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014 

Reported with an amendment, 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 December 5, 2013] 


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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 2014’’. 

6 SEC. 2. EXPANDING AND CLARIFYING PROHIBITION ON IN7 ACCURATE CALLER ID INFORMATION. 

8 (a) COMMUNICATIONS FROM OUTSIDE UNITED

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

10 1934 (47 U.S.C. 227(e)(1)) is amended by inserting ‘‘or any 

11 person outside the United States if the recipient is within 

12 the United States,’’ after ‘‘United States,’’. 

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

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

15 amended— 

16 (1) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ‘‘(includ17 ing a text message sent using a text messaging serv18 ice)’’ before the period at the end; 

19 (2) in the first sentence of subparagraph (B), by 

20 inserting ‘‘(including a text message sent using a text 

21 messaging service)’’ before the period at the end; and 

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

23 ‘‘(D) TEXT MESSAGE.—The term ‘text mes24 sage’ means a real-time or near real-time mes25 sage consisting of text, images, sounds, or other 


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1 information that is transmitted from or received 

2 by a device that is identified as the transmitting 

3 or receiving device by means of a telephone num4 ber. Such term— 

5 ‘‘(i) includes a short message service 

6 (SMS) message, an enhanced message serv7 ice (EMS) message, and a multimedia mes8 sage service (MMS) message; and 

9 ‘‘(ii) does not include a real-time, two10 way voice or video communication. 

11 ‘‘(E) TEXT MESSAGING SERVICE.—The term 

12 ‘text messaging service’ means a service that per13 mits the transmission or receipt of a text mes14 sage, including a service provided as part of or 

15 in connection with a telecommunications service 

16 or an IP-enabled voice service.’’. 

17 (c) COVERAGE OF OUTGOING-CALL-ONLY IP-ENABLED

18 VOICE SERVICE.—Section 227(e)(8)(C) of the Communica19 tions Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 227(e)(8)(C)) is amended by 

20 striking ‘‘has the meaning’’ and all that follows and insert21 ing ‘‘means the provision of real-time voice communications 

22 offered to the public, or such class of users as to be effectively 

23 available to the public, transmitted using Internet protocol, 

24 or a successor protocol, (whether part of a bundle of services 

25 or separately) with interconnection capability such that the 


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1 service can originate traffic to, or terminate traffic from, 

2 the public switched telephone network, or a successor net3 work.’’. 

4 (d) REGULATIONS.— 

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

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

7 227(e)(3)(A)) is amended by striking ‘‘Not later than 

8 6 months after the date of enactment of the Truth in 

9 Caller ID Act of 2009, the Commission’’ and insert10 ing ‘‘The Commission’’. 

11 (2) DEADLINE.—The Federal Communications 

12 Commission shall prescribe regulations to implement 

13 the amendments made by this section not later than 

14 18 months after the date of the enactment of this Act. 

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

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

17 the date on which the Federal Communications Commission 

18 prescribes regulations to implement the amendments made 

19 by this section. 


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Union Calendar No. 423 

113TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 3670 

[Report No. 113–572] 

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 

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Comand ordered to be printed mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 


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