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(1) by redesignating subsections (e), (f), and 
(g) as subsections (f), (g), and (h), respectively; and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (d) the fol-
lowing new subsection: 
‘‘(e) PROHIBITION
ON PROVISION
OF DECEPTIVE 
CALLER ID INFORMATION.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—It shall be unlawful for any 
person within the United States, in connection with 
any real time voice communications service, regard-
less of the technology or network utilized, to cause 
any caller ID service to transmit misleading or inac-
curate caller ID information, with the intent to de-
fraud or deceive. 
‘‘(2) PROTECTION FOR BLOCKING CALLER ID 
INFORMATION.—Nothing in this subsection may be 
construed to prevent or restrict any person from 
blocking the capability of any caller ID service to 
transmit caller ID information. 
‘‘(3) REGULATIONS.— 
‘‘(A) 
DEADLINE.—Not 
later 
than 
months after the date of enactment of this sub-
section, the Commission shall prescribe regula-
tions to implement this subsection. 
‘‘(B) CONSIDERATION OF RELATED REGU-
LATIONS.—In conducting the proceeding to pre-
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scribe the regulations required by subparagraph 
(A), the Commission shall examine whether the 
regulations under subsection (b)(2)(B) should 
be revised to require calls that are not made for 
a commercial purpose to residential telephone 
lines using an artificial or prerecorded voice to 
deliver a message to transmit caller ID infor-
mation that is not misleading or inaccurate. 
‘‘(4) LAW
ENFORCEMENT
EXCEPTION.—This 
section does not prohibit lawfully authorized inves-
tigative, protective, or intelligence activity of a law 
enforcement agency of the United States, a State, or 
a political subdivision of a State, or of an intel-
ligence agency of the United States, or any activity 
authorized under chapter 224 of title 18, United 
States Code. 
‘‘(5) SAVINGS PROVISION.—Except as provided 
for in paragraph (3)(B), nothing in this subsection 
may be construed to affect or alter the application 
of the Commission’s regulations regarding the re-
quirements for transmission of caller ID informa-
tion, issued pursuant to the Telephone Consumer 
Protection Act of 1991 (Public Law 102–243) and 
the amendments made by such Act. 
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‘‘(6) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this sub-
section: 
‘‘(A) CALLER ID INFORMATION.—The term 
‘caller ID information’ means information pro-
vided to an end user by a caller ID service re-
garding the name or the telephone number of 
the caller or other information regarding the 
origination of a call made using any real time 
voice communications service, regardless of the 
technology or network utilized. 
‘‘(B) CALLER
ID
SERVICE.—The term 
‘caller ID service’ means any service or device 
designed to provide the user of the service or 
device with the name or the telephone number 
of the caller or other information regarding the 
origination of a call made using any real time 
voice communications service, regardless of the 
technology or network utilized. Such term in-
cludes automatic number identification serv-
ices.’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives April 14, 2010. 
Attest: 
LORRAINE C. MILLER, 
Clerk. 
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Calendar No. 346 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1258 
AN ACT 
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to pro-
hibit manipulation of caller ID information, and 
for other purposes. 
APRIL 15, 2010 
Received; read twice and placed on the calendar 
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