I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3670 
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to expand and clarify the prohibi-
tion on provision of inaccurate caller identification information, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 5, 2013 
Ms. MENG (for herself, Mr. BARTON, and Mr. LANCE) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to expand and 
clarify the prohibition on provision of inaccurate caller 
identification information, 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 ‘‘Anti-Spoofing Act of 
2013’’. 
SEC. 2. EXPANDING AND CLARIFYING PROHIBITION ON IN-
ACCURATE CALLER ID INFORMATION. 
(a) COMMUNICATIONS
FROM
OUTSIDE
UNITED 
STATES.—Section 227(e)(1) of the Communications Act 
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of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 227(e)(1)) is amended by inserting 
‘‘or any person outside the United States if the recipient 
is within the United States,’’ after ‘‘United States,’’. 
(b) SPOOFING SERVICE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 227(e) of the Com-
munications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 227(e)) is 
amended— 
(A) by striking paragraph (4); 
(B) by redesignating paragraph (3) as 
paragraph (4); 
(C) by inserting after paragraph (2) the 
following: 
‘‘(3) SPOOFING
SERVICE.—The Commission 
shall prescribe regulations requiring a provider of a 
spoofing service to take such steps as the Commis-
sion may prescribe to verify that any person who 
uses the service is informed of any applicable Fed-
eral or State law.’’; and 
(D) in paragraph (8), by adding at the end 
the following: 
‘‘(D) 
SPOOFING
SERVICE.—The 
term 
‘spoofing service’ means a service that permits 
a user to knowingly cause any caller identifica-
tion service to transmit misleading or inac-
curate caller identification information. Such 
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term does not include a service to the extent 
such service transmits or displays without alter-
ation caller identification information generated 
by another person.’’. 
(2) 
CONFORMING
AMENDMENT.—Section 
227(e)(1) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 
U.S.C. 227(e)(1)) is further amended by striking 
‘‘paragraph (3)(B)’’ and inserting ‘‘paragraph 
(4)(B)’’. 
(c) TEXT MESSAGING SERVICE.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Section 227(e)(8) of the 
Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 227(e)(8)) 
is amended— 
(A) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ‘‘(in-
cluding a text message sent using a text mes-
saging service)’’ before the period at the end; 
(B) in the first sentence of subparagraph 
(B), by inserting ‘‘(including a text message 
sent using a text messaging service)’’ before the 
period at the end; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(E) TEXT
MESSAGE.—The term ‘text 
message’ means a real-time or near real-time 
message consisting of text, images, sounds, or 
other information that is transmitted from or 
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received by a device that is identified as the 
transmitting or receiving device by means of a 
telephone number. Such term— 
‘‘(i) includes a short message service 
(SMS) message, an enhanced message 
service (EMS) message, and a multimedia 
message service (MMS) message; and 
‘‘(ii) does not include a real-time, two- 
way voice or video communication. 
‘‘(F) TEXT
MESSAGING
SERVICE.—The 
term ‘text messaging service’ means a service 
that permits the transmission or receipt of a 
text message, including a service provided as 
part of or in connection with a telecommuni-
cations service or an IP-enabled voice service.’’. 
(2) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this 
section or any amendment made by this section shall 
be construed to modify, limit, or otherwise affect— 
(A) any other authority of the Federal 
Communications Commission under section 227 
of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 
227) or the CAN–SPAM Act of 2003 (15 
U.S.C. 7701 et seq.) to interpret a call to in-
clude a text message; or 
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(B) any rule or order adopted by the Com-
mission under such section or such Act that 
provides that a call includes a text message. 
(d) COVERAGE
OF OUTGOING-CALL-ONLY IP-EN-
ABLED VOICE SERVICE.—Section 227(e)(8)(C) of the 
Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 227(e)(8)(C)) is 
amended by striking ‘‘has the meaning’’ and all that fol-
lows and inserting ‘‘means the provision of real-time voice 
communications offered to the public, or such class of 
users as to be effectively available to the public, trans-
mitted using Internet protocol, or a successor protocol, 
(whether part of a bundle of services or separately) with 
interconnection capability such that the service can origi-
nate traffic to, or terminate traffic from, the public 
switched telephone network, or a successor network.’’. 
(e) REGULATIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 227(e)(4)(A) of the 
Communications Act of 1934, as redesignated, is 
amended by striking ‘‘Not later than 6 months after 
the date of enactment of the Truth in Caller ID Act 
of 2009, the Commission’’ and inserting ‘‘The Com-
mission’’. 
(2) DEADLINE.—The Federal Communications 
Commission shall prescribe regulations to implement 
the amendments made by this section not later than 
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18 months after the date of the enactment of this 
Act. 
(f) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall take effect on the date that is 6 months 
after the date on which the Federal Communications Com-
mission prescribes regulations to implement the amend-
ments made by this section. 
Æ 
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