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116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3780 
To direct the Federal Communications Commission to establish an advisory 
committee to develop best practices regarding how to combat unlawful 
robocalls made to hospitals and how hospitals can protect themselves 
from such calls, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 16, 2019 
Mrs. DINGELL (for herself and Mr. BURGESS) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To direct the Federal Communications Commission to estab-
lish an advisory committee to develop best practices re-
garding how to combat unlawful robocalls made to hos-
pitals and how hospitals can protect themselves from 
such calls, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protecting Patients 
and Doctors from Unlawful Robocalls Act of 2019’’. 
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SEC. 2. HOSPITAL ROBOCALL PROTECTION GROUP. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 180 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Commission 
shall establish an advisory committee to be known as the 
‘‘Hospital Robocall Protection Group’’. 
(b) MEMBERSHIP.—The Group shall be composed 
only of the following members: 
(1) An equal number of representatives from 
each of the following: 
(A) Voice service providers that serve hos-
pitals. 
(B) Companies that focus on mitigating 
unlawful robocalls. 
(C) Consumer advocacy organizations. 
(D) Providers of one-way voice over inter-
net protocol services described in subsection 
(e)(4)(B)(ii). 
(E) Hospitals. 
(F) State government officials focused on 
combatting unlawful robocalls. 
(2) One representative of the Commission. 
(3) One representative of the Federal Trade 
Commission. 
(c) ISSUANCE OF BEST PRACTICES.—Not later than 
180 days after the date on which the Group is established 
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under subsection (a), the Group shall issue best practices 
regarding the following: 
(1) How voice service providers can better com-
bat unlawful robocalls made to hospitals. 
(2) How hospitals can better protect themselves 
from such calls, including by using unlawful robocall 
mitigation techniques. 
(3) How the Federal Government and State 
governments can help combat such calls. 
(d) PROCEEDING BY FCC.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date on which the best practices are issued by 
the Group under subsection (c), the Commission shall con-
clude a proceeding to assess the extent to which the vol-
untary adoption of such best practices can be facilitated 
to protect hospitals and other institutions. 
(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) COMMISSION.—The term ‘‘Commission’’ 
means the Federal Communications Commission. 
(2) GROUP.—The term ‘‘Group’’ means the 
Hospital Robocall Protection Group established 
under subsection (a). 
(3) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ has the mean-
ing given such term in section 3 of the Communica-
tions Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 153). 
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