for each such violation, whichever is 
greater; or 
‘‘(III) both such actions. 
‘‘(ii) ENHANCED
AWARDS.—If the 
court finds that the defendant willfully or 
knowingly violated such regulations, the 
court may, in its discretion, increase the 
amount of the award to an amount equal 
to not more than 3 times the amount avail-
able under clause (i)(II) of this subpara-
graph. 
‘‘(E) RULES OF CONSTRUCTION.— 
‘‘(i) PREVENTION
OF
CALLS.—For 
purposes of a regulation prescribed under 
this paragraph, a call shall be considered 
to be prevented even if the call is recorded 
or redirected in a manner that allows the 
called party to be notified of the attempt 
to make the call, or to have access to a 
message left by the calling party. 
‘‘(ii) BLOCKING CALLER IDENTIFICA-
TION
INFORMATION.—Nothing 
in 
this 
paragraph may be construed to require an 
originating provider to prevent or restrict 
any person from blocking the capability of 
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any caller identification service to transmit 
caller identification information. 
‘‘(F) DEFINITIONS.—In this paragraph: 
‘‘(i) ORIGINATING
PROVIDER.—The 
term ‘originating provider’ means a pro-
vider of telecommunications service, or a 
provider of IP-enabled voice service (as de-
fined in subsection (e)(8)), that permits a 
subscriber to originate a call that may be 
transmitted on the public switched tele-
phone network. 
‘‘(ii) 
RECEIVING
PROVIDER.—The 
term ‘receiving provider’ means a provider 
of telecommunications service, or a pro-
vider of IP-enabled voice service (as de-
fined in subsection (e)(8)), that permits a 
subscriber to receive a call originating or 
that may be transmitted on the public 
switched telephone network.’’. 
(b) ACTIONS BY STATES.—Section 227(g)(1) of the 
Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 227(g)(1)) is 
amended— 
(1) by inserting after ‘‘to residents of that 
State’’ the following: ‘‘, a pattern or practice of fail-
ure to provide the technology required by clause (i) 
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of subsection (d)(4)(A) that threatens or adversely 
affects an interest of such residents, or a pattern or 
practice of failure to provide to such residents the 
technology or the options, as applicable, required by 
clause (ii) of such subsection,’’; and 
(2) by inserting after ‘‘to enjoin such calls’’ the 
following: ‘‘or such a failure’’. 
(c) DEADLINE AND EFFECTIVE DATE FOR REGULA-
TIONS.—The Federal Communications Commission shall 
prescribe the regulations required by paragraph (4) of sec-
tion 227(d) of the Communications Act of 1934, as added 
by this section, not later than 18 months after the date 
of the enactment of this Act. Such regulations shall apply 
beginning on the date that is 180 days after the date of 
prescription of such regulations. 
SEC. 5. INTENTIONAL INTERFERENCE WITH CALL-BLOCK-
ING TECHNOLOGY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 227 of the Communica-
tions Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 227) is amended by adding 
at the end the following: 
‘‘(i) INTENTIONAL
INTERFERENCE
WITH
CALL- 
BLOCKING TECHNOLOGY.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—It shall be unlawful for any 
person within the United States, or any person out-
side the United States if the recipient is within the 
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United States, with the intent to cause harm, to 
take any action that causes the technology offered 
under subsection (d)(4)(A)(ii)(II) to— 
‘‘(A) incorrectly identify telephone calls as 
originating or probably originating from an 
automatic telephone dialing system or using or 
probably using an artificial or prerecorded 
voice; or 
‘‘(B) prevent (as such term is used in sub-
section (d)(4)) the called party from receiving a 
call— 
‘‘(i) made by a public safety entity, in-
cluding public safety answering points as 
defined in section 222(h), emergency oper-
ations centers, or law enforcement agen-
cies; or 
‘‘(ii) to which the called party has 
provided prior express consent. 
‘‘(2) PENALTIES; ACTIONS
BY
STATES.—Any 
person who violates this subsection or the regula-
tions prescribed under this subsection shall be sub-
ject to the penalties set forth in paragraph (5) of 
subsection (e), and to actions by States as set forth 
in paragraph (6) of such subsection, in the same 
manner and to the same extent as if such person 
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had violated such subsection or the regulations pre-
scribed under such subsection.’’. 
(b) DEADLINE
FOR REGULATIONS.—The Federal 
Communications Commission shall prescribe regulations 
to implement subsection (i) of section 227 of the Commu-
nications Act of 1934, as added by this section, not later 
than 18 months after the date of the enactment of this 
Act. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Subsection (i) of section 227 
of the Communications Act of 1934, as added by this sec-
tion, shall apply beginning on the date that is 180 days 
after the date on which the Federal Communications Com-
mission prescribes regulations to implement such sub-
section. 
SEC. 6. REPORTS TO CONGRESS. 
(a) CALLER NAME FALSIFICATION.—Not later than 
180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Federal Communications Commission shall, in consulta-
tion with the Federal Trade Commission, submit to Con-
gress and publish to a publicly available website a report 
containing the findings and conclusions of a study deter-
mining how to minimize the extent to which caller names 
are falsified in caller identification name databases. 
(b) TECHNOLOGY REQUIREMENTS.— 
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(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 4 years after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, and every 4 
years thereafter until the date of termination de-
scribed in paragraph (2), the Federal Communica-
tions Commission shall submit to Congress and pub-
lish to a publicly available website a report that con-
tains the following information: 
(A) The extent to which subscribers con-
tinue to receive calls with misleading or inac-
curate caller identification information (except 
for calls from entities with a legitimate need 
and 
calls 
exempted 
pursuant 
to 
section 
227(e)(3)(B)(ii) of the Communications Act of 
1934), including a quantitative assessment of 
the change in the number of complaints made 
to the Commission regarding such calls before 
the effective date of the regulations required by 
paragraph (4) of section 227(d) of such Act, as 
added by section 4 of this Act, and after such 
effective date. 
(B) The extent to which subscribers that 
choose to enable technology offered in accord-
ance with section 227(d)(4)(A)(ii)(II) of the 
Communications Act of 1934, as added by sec-
tion 4 of this Act, continue to receive calls orig-
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inating from an automatic telephone dialing 
system or using an artificial or prerecorded 
voice (except for calls from public safety entities 
and calls to which subscribers have provided 
prior express consent), including a quantitative 
assessment of the change in the number of 
complaints made to the Commission regarding 
such calls before the effective date of the regu-
lations required by such section and after such 
effective date. 
(C) An assessment of whether the stand-
ards set forth in such regulations have been 
successful in reducing the number of the calls 
described in each of subparagraphs (A) and (B) 
received by subscribers, and whether there have 
been any problems with such standards or the 
technology required by such standards, such as 
the prevention of calls from public safety enti-
ties or calls to which subscribers have provided 
prior express consent. 
(D) Any recommendations for legislative or 
regulatory action to improve such standards. 
(2) TERMINATION.—The date of termination 
described in this paragraph is the date on which the 
Federal Communications Commission, in consulta-
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tion with the Federal Trade Commission, determines 
that the report required by paragraph (1) is no 
longer necessary because of a substantial reduction 
in the number of calls described in each of subpara-
graphs (A) and (B) of such paragraph. 
Æ 
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