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 ‘‘Truth in Caller ID Act 
of 2010’’. 
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION REGARDING MANIPULATION OF CALL-
ER ID INFORMATION. 
Section 227 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 
U.S.C. 227) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsections (e), (f), and (g) 
as subsections (f), (g), and (h), respectively; and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (d) the following 
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 inaccurate 
caller ID information, with the intent to defraud or 
deceive. 
‘‘(2) PROTECTION FOR BLOCKING CALLER ID IN-
FORMATION.—Nothing in this subsection may be con-
strued to prevent or restrict any person from blocking 
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the capability of any caller ID service to transmit 
caller ID information. 
‘‘(3) REGULATIONS.— 
‘‘(A) DEADLINE.—Not later than 6 months 
after the date of enactment of this subsection, the 
Commission shall prescribe regulations to imple-
ment this subsection. 
‘‘(B) CONSIDERATION OF RELATED REGULA-
TIONS.—In conducting the proceeding to pre-
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 information that 
is not misleading or inaccurate. 
‘‘(4) LAW ENFORCEMENT EXCEPTION.—This sec-
tion does not prohibit lawfully authorized investiga-
tive, protective, or intelligence activity of a law en-
forcement agency of the United States, a State, or a 
political subdivision of a State, or of an intelligence 
agency of the United States, or any activity author-
ized under chapter 224 of title 18, United States 
Code. 
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‘‘(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 require-
ments for transmission of caller ID information, 
issued pursuant to the Telephone Consumer Protec-
tion Act of 1991 (Public Law 102–243) and the 
amendments made by such Act. 
‘‘(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 origi-
nation of a call made using any real time voice 
communications service, regardless of the tech-
nology 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 commu-
nications service, regardless of the technology or 
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network utilized. Such term includes automatic 
number identification services.’’. 
Amend the title so as to read: ‘‘A bill to amend the 
Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit manipulation of 
caller ID information, and for other purposes.’’. 
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Union Calendar No. 264 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1258 
[Report No. 111–461] 
A BILL 
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to pro-
hibit manipulation of caller identification infor-
mation, and for other purposes. 
APRIL 13, 2010 
Reported with amendments, committed to the Committee 
of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and or-
dered to be printed 
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