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116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2386 
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to provide for information sharing 
regarding robocall and spoofing violations, to authorize the provision 
of a robocall blocking service with opt-out customer approval, and to 
provide for a study on information requirements for certain VoIP service 
providers. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 29, 2019 
Mr. LATTA (for himself and Mr. MICHAEL F. DOYLE of Pennsylvania) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy 
and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to provide for 
information sharing regarding robocall and spoofing vio-
lations, to authorize the provision of a robocall blocking 
service with opt-out customer approval, and to provide 
for a study on information requirements for certain VoIP 
service providers. 
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 ‘‘Support Tools to Oblit-
erate Pesky Robocalls Act’’ or the ‘‘STOP Robocalls Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. INFORMATION SHARING REGARDING ROBOCALL 
AND SPOOFING VIOLATIONS. 
Section 227 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 
U.S.C. 227) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(i) INFORMATION SHARING.—Not later than 18 
months after the date of the enactment of this subsection, 
the Commission shall promulgate regulations to establish 
a process that streamlines the ways in which a private en-
tity may voluntarily share with the Commission informa-
tion relating to— 
‘‘(1) a call made or a text message sent in vio-
lation of subsection (b); or 
‘‘(2) a call or text message for which misleading 
or inaccurate caller identification information was 
caused to be transmitted in violation of subsection 
(e).’’. 
SEC. 3. ROBOCALL BLOCKING SERVICE WITH OPT-OUT CUS-
TOMER APPROVAL. 
Section 227 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 
U.S.C. 227), as amended by section 2, is further amended 
by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(j) ROBOCALL BLOCKING SERVICE WITH OPT-OUT 
CUSTOMER APPROVAL.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—A voice service provider 
may provide a robocall blocking service to a cus-
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tomer on an informed opt-out basis if the provider 
does not charge a fee in exchange for such service. 
‘‘(2) RULES OF CONSTRUCTION.— 
‘‘(A) INFORMED
OPT-IN
BASIS.—Nothing 
in this subsection shall be construed to prohibit 
a voice service provider from providing a 
robocall blocking service to customers on an in-
formed opt-in basis, whether or not in exchange 
for a fee. 
‘‘(B) BLOCKING
CALLS
WITHOUT
CUS-
TOMER CONSENT.—Nothing in this subsection 
shall be construed to prohibit a voice service 
provider from blocking calls without customer 
consent as provided by rule or order of the 
Commission. 
‘‘(3) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 
‘‘(A) ROBOCALL BLOCKING SERVICE.—The 
term ‘robocall blocking service’ means a service 
or technology that enables a voice service cus-
tomer to avoid receiving calls made in violation 
of subsection (b). 
‘‘(B) VOICE
SERVICE.—The term ‘voice 
service’ has the meaning given such term in 
subsection (e)(8). This subparagraph shall 
apply before the effective date of the amend-
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ment made to such subsection by subparagraph 
(C) of section 503(a)(2) of division P of the 
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 (Public 
Law 115–141) as if such amendment was al-
ready in effect.’’. 
SEC. 4. STUDY ON INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS FOR CER-
TAIN VOIP SERVICE PROVIDERS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Federal Communications 
Commission shall conduct a study regarding whether to 
require a provider of covered VoIP service to— 
(1) provide to the Commission contact informa-
tion for such provider and keep such information 
current; and 
(2) retain records relating to each call trans-
mitted over the covered VoIP service of such pro-
vider that are sufficient to trace such call back to 
the source of such call. 
(b) REPORT
TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 18 
months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Commission shall submit to Congress a report on the re-
sults of the study conducted under subsection (a). 
(c) COVERED VOIP SERVICE DEFINED.—In this sec-
tion, the term ‘‘covered VoIP service’’ means a service 
that— 
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(1) is an interconnected VoIP service (as de-
fined in section 3 of the Communications Act of 
1934 (47 U.S.C. 153)); or 
(2) would be an interconnected VoIP service (as 
so defined) except that the service permits users to 
terminate calls to the public switched telephone net-
work but does not permit users to receive calls that 
originate on the public switched telephone network. 
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