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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5200 
To direct the Federal Communications Commission to issue reports after 
activation of the Disaster Information Reporting System and to make 
improvements to network outage reporting, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 8, 2025 
Ms. MATSUI (for herself and Mr. BILIRAKIS) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To direct the Federal Communications Commission to issue 
reports after activation of the Disaster Information Re-
porting System and to make improvements to network 
outage reporting, 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 ‘‘Emergency Reporting 
Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. REPORTS AFTER ACTIVATION OF DISASTER INFOR-
MATION 
REPORTING 
SYSTEM; 
IMPROVE-
MENTS TO NETWORK OUTAGE REPORTING. 
(a) REPORTS AFTER ACTIVATION OF DISASTER IN-
FORMATION REPORTING SYSTEM.— 
(1) PUBLIC HEARINGS.— 
(A) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 1 
year after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
and annually thereafter, the Commission shall 
hold not less than 1 public hearing relating to 
all events during the preceding 1-year period 
for which the System was activated for not less 
than 7 days. 
(B) INCLUSION OF CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS 
IN HEARINGS.—For each public hearing held 
under subparagraph (A), the Commission shall 
consider including— 
(i) representatives of State govern-
ments, local governments, or Indian tribal 
governments in areas affected by such 
events; 
(ii) residents of the areas affected by 
such events, or consumer advocates; 
(iii) providers of communications serv-
ices affected by such events; 
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(iv) faculty of institutions of higher 
education; 
(v) representatives of other Federal 
agencies; 
(vi) electric utility providers; 
(vii) communications infrastructure 
companies; and 
(viii) 
first 
responders, 
emergency 
managers, or 9–1–1 directors in areas af-
fected by such events. 
(2) REPORTS.—Not later than 120 days after 
the date on which a public hearing held under para-
graph (1) concludes, the Commission shall issue a 
report that includes, with respect to the events to 
which such hearing relates and to the extent known 
without requiring the collection of additional infor-
mation— 
(A) the number and duration of any out-
ages of— 
(i) broadband internet access service; 
(ii) interconnected VoIP service; 
(iii) commercial mobile service; and 
(iv) commercial mobile data service; 
(B) the approximate number of users and 
the amount of communications infrastructure 
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potentially affected by an outage described in 
subparagraph (A); 
(C) the number and duration of any out-
ages that prevent emergency communications 
centers from receiving caller location or number 
information or receiving emergency calls and 
routing such calls to emergency service per-
sonnel; and 
(D) any recommendations of the Commis-
sion on how to improve the resiliency of af-
fected communications services or networks. 
(3) DEVELOPMENT
OF
REPORTS.—In devel-
oping a report required by paragraph (2), the Com-
mission shall consider information collected by the 
Commission with respect to the events to which such 
report 
relates, 
including 
information 
collected 
through the System and the relevant public hearing. 
(4) PUBLICATION OF REPORTS.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in 
subparagraph (B), the Commission shall pub-
lish each report required by paragraph (2) on 
the website of the Commission upon the 
issuance of such report. 
(B) EXCLUSION.—In publishing a report 
under subparagraph (A), the Commission shall 
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exclude information that is otherwise exempt 
from public disclosure under the rules of the 
Commission or that was submitted to the Com-
mission with a proper request for confidential 
treatment as described in section 0.459 of title 
47, Code of Federal Regulations (or any suc-
cessor regulation). 
(b) IMPROVEMENTS TO NETWORK OUTAGE REPORT-
ING.—Not later than 1 year after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Commission shall conduct an inves-
tigation and publish on the website of the Commission a 
report on— 
(1) the value to public safety agencies of origi-
nating service providers including visual information 
to improve situational awareness about outages in 
the notifications provided to emergency communica-
tions centers, as required by the rules of the Com-
mission; 
(2) the volume and nature of 9–1–1 outages 
that may go unreported under the outage notifica-
tion thresholds of the Commission; 
(3) the balance between the value described in 
paragraph (1) to public safety agencies and the bur-
den and practicality for originating service providers 
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of including visual information in outage notifica-
tions as described in such paragraph; and 
(4) recommended changes to the rules of the 
Commission to address the matters reported under 
paragraphs (1) and (2). 
(c) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-
tion shall be construed to provide the Commission or any 
other person authority over any provider of broadband 
internet access service beyond what is specifically author-
ized under this section. 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) BROADBAND INTERNET ACCESS SERVICE.— 
The term ‘‘broadband internet access service’’ has 
the meaning given such term in section 8.1(b) of 
title 47, Code of Federal Regulations (or any suc-
cessor regulation). 
(2) COMMERCIAL MOBILE DATA SERVICE.—The 
term ‘‘commercial mobile data service’’ has the 
meaning given such term in section 6001 of the Mid-
dle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 
(47 U.S.C. 1401). 
(3) COMMERCIAL MOBILE SERVICE.—The term 
‘‘commercial mobile service’’ has the meaning given 
such term in section 332(d) of the Communications 
Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 332(d)). 
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(4) COMMISSION.—The term ‘‘Commission’’ 
means the Federal Communications Commission. 
(5) EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS CENTER.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘‘emergency 
communications center’’ means— 
(i) a facility that— 
(I) is designated to receive a 9– 
1–1 request for emergency assistance; 
and 
(II) performs 1 or more of the 
functions described in subparagraph 
(B); or 
(ii) a public safety answering point 
(as defined in section 222 of the Commu-
nications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 222)). 
(B) FUNCTIONS
DESCRIBED.—The func-
tions described in this subparagraph are the fol-
lowing: 
(i) Processing and analyzing 9–1–1 
requests for emergency assistance and in-
formation and data related to such re-
quests. 
(ii) Dispatching appropriate emer-
gency response providers. 
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(iii) Transferring or exchanging 9–1– 
1 requests for emergency assistance and 
information and data related to such re-
quests with 1 or more other emergency 
communications centers and emergency re-
sponse providers. 
(iv) Analyzing any communications re-
ceived from emergency response providers. 
(v) Supporting incident command 
functions. 
(6) INDIAN TRIBAL GOVERNMENT; LOCAL GOV-
ERNMENT.—The terms ‘‘Indian tribal government’’ 
and ‘‘local government’’ have the meanings given 
such terms in section 102 of the Robert T. Stafford 
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 
U.S.C. 5122). 
(7) INTERCONNECTED VOIP SERVICE; STATE.— 
The terms ‘‘interconnected VoIP service’’ and 
‘‘State’’ have the meanings given such terms in sec-
tion 3 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 
U.S.C. 153). 
(8) OUTAGE.—The term ‘‘outage’’ has the 
meaning given such term in section 4.5 of title 47, 
Code of Federal Regulations (or any successor regu-
lation). 
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(9) SYSTEM.—The term ‘‘System’’ means the 
Disaster Information Reporting System of the Com-
mission. 
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