SEC. 7. REGULATIONS RELATING TO EFFECTIVE CALL AU-
THENTICATION TECHNOLOGY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Commission shall pre-
scribe regulations in WC Docket No. 17–97. 
(b) REQUIREMENTS FOR EFFECTIVE CALL AUTHEN-
TICATION TECHNOLOGY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The regulations required by 
subsection (a) shall— 
(A) require providers of voice service to im-
plement, within six months after the date on 
which such regulations are prescribed, an effec-
tive call authentication technology; and 
(B) ensure that voice service providers that 
have implemented the effective authentication 
technology attest that such provider has deter-
mined, when originating calls on behalf of a 
calling party, that the calling party number 
transmitted with such calls has been appro-
priately authenticated. 
(2) REASSESSMENT
OF
REGULATIONS.—The 
Commission shall reassess such regulations, at least 
once every two years, to ensure the regulations re-
main effective and up to date with technological ca-
pabilities. 
(3) EXEMPTION.— 
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(A) BURDENS AND BARRIERS TO IMPLE-
MENTATION.—The Commission— 
(i) shall include findings on any bur-
dens or barriers to the implementation re-
quired in paragraph (1), including— 
(I) for providers of voice service 
to the extent the networks of such 
providers 
use 
time-division 
multi-
plexing; and 
(II) for small providers of voice 
service and those in rural areas; and 
(ii) in connection with such findings, 
may exempt from the 6-month time period 
described in paragraph (1)(A), for a rea-
sonable period of time a class of providers 
of voice service, or type of voice calls, as 
necessary for that class of providers or 
type of calls to participate in the imple-
mentation in order to address the identi-
fied burdens and barriers. 
(B) FULL PARTICIPATION.—The Commis-
sion shall take all steps necessary to address 
any issues in the findings and enable as 
promptly as possible full participation of all 
classes of providers of voice service and types of 
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voice calls to receive the highest level of attesta-
tion. 
(C) ALTERNATIVE METHODOLOGIES.—The 
Commission shall identify or develop, in con-
sultation with small providers of service and 
those in rural areas, alternative effective meth-
odologies 
to 
protect 
customers 
from 
unauthenticated calls during any exemption 
given under subparagraph (A)(ii). Such meth-
odologies shall be provided with no additional 
line item charge to customers. 
(D) REVISION OF EXEMPTION.—Not less 
frequently than annually after the first exemp-
tion is issued under this paragraph, the Com-
mission shall consider revising or extending any 
exemption made, may revise such exemption, 
and shall issue a public notice with regard to 
whether such exemption remains necessary. 
(4) ACCURATE IDENTIFICATION.—The regula-
tions required by subsection (a) shall include guide-
lines that providers of voice service may use as part 
of the implementation of effective call authentication 
technology under paragraph (1) to take steps to en-
sure the calling party is accurately identified. 
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(5) NO ADDITIONAL COST TO CONSUMERS OR 
SMALL BUSINESS CUSTOMERS.—The regulations re-
quired by subsection (a) shall prohibit providers of 
voice service from making any additional line item 
charges to consumer or small business customer sub-
scribers for the effective call authentication tech-
nology required under paragraph (1). 
(6) EVALUATION.—Not later than 2 years after 
the date of enactment of this Act, and consistent 
with the regulations prescribed under subsection (a), 
the Commission shall initiate an evaluation of the 
success of the effective call authentication technology 
required under paragraph (1). 
(7) UNAUTHENTICATED CALLS.—The Commis-
sion shall— 
(A) in the regulations required by sub-
section (a), consistent with the regulations pre-
scribed under subsection (k) of section 227 of 
the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 
227), as added by section 8, help protect sub-
scribers from receiving unwanted calls from a 
caller 
using 
an 
unauthenticated 
number, 
through effective means of enabling the sub-
scriber or provider to block such calls, with no 
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additional line item charge to the subscriber; 
and 
(B) take appropriate steps to ensure that 
calls originating from a provider of service in 
an area where the provider is exempt from the 
6-month time period described in paragraph 
(1)(A) are not wrongly blocked because the calls 
are not able to be authenticated. 
(c) REPORT.—Not later than 6 months after the date 
on which the regulations under subsection (a) are pre-
scribed, the Commission shall submit to the Committee 
on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives 
and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor-
tation of the Senate, and make publicly available on its 
website, a report on the implementation of subsection (b), 
which shall include— 
(1) an analysis of the extent to which providers 
of a voice service have implemented the effective call 
authentication technology, including whether the 
availability of necessary equipment and equipment 
upgrades has impacted such implementation; and 
(2) an assessment of the effective call authen-
tication technology, as being implemented under 
subsection (b), in addressing all aspects of call au-
thentication. 
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