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113TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 2787 

To expand and clarify the prohibition on inaccurate caller ID information. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014 

Ms. KLOBUCHAR (for herself and Mr. BLUNT) introduced the following bill; 

which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, 

Science, and Transportation 

A BILL 

To expand and clarify the prohibition on inaccurate caller 

ID information. 

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 ‘‘Caller ID Scam Pre5 vention Act of 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 

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


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

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

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

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

5 is amended— 

6 (1) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ‘‘(includ7 ing a text message sent using a text messaging serv8 ice)’’ before the period at the end; 

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

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

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

12 end; and 

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

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

15 message’— 

16 ‘‘(i) means a real-time or near real17 time message consisting of text, images, 

18 sounds, or other information that is trans19 mitted from or received by a device that is 

20 identified as the transmitting or receiving 

21 device by means of a telephone number; 

22 ‘‘(ii) includes a short message service 

23 (commonly referred to as ‘SMS’) message, 

24 an enhanced message service (commonly 

25 referred to as ‘EMS’) message, and a 


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1 multimedia message service (commonly re2 ferred to as ‘MMS’) message; and 

3 ‘‘(iii) does not include a real-time, 2- 

4 way voice or video communication. 

5 ‘‘(E) TEXT MESSAGING SERVICE.—The 

6 term ‘text messaging service’ means a service 

7 that permits the transmission or receipt of a 

8 text message, including a service provided as 

9 part of or in connection with a telecommuni10 cations service or an IP-enabled voice service.’’. 

11 (c) COVERAGE OF OUTGOING-CALL-ONLY IP-EN12 ABLED VOICE SERVICE.—Section 227(e)(8)(C) of the 

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

14 amended by striking ‘‘has the meaning’’ and all that fol15 lows and inserting ‘‘means the provision of real-time voice 

16 communications offered to the public, or such class of 

17 users as to be effectively available to the public, trans18 mitted using Internet protocol, or a successor protocol, 

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

20 interconnection capability such that the service can origi21 nate traffic to, or terminate traffic from, the public 

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

23 (d) REGULATIONS.— 

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

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


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1 227(e)(3)(A)) is amended by striking ‘‘Not later 

2 than 6 months after the date of enactment of the 

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

4 and inserting ‘‘The Commission’’. 

5 (2) DEADLINE.—Not later than 18 months 

6 after the date of enactment of this Act, the Federal 

7 Communications Commission shall prescribe regula8 tions to implement the amendments made by this 

9 section. 

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

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

12 after the date on which the Federal Communications Com13 mission prescribes regulations to implement the amend14 ments made by this section. 

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