IIB 
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 3670 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
SEPTEMBER 10, 2014 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
and Transportation 
AN ACT 
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, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Anti-Spoofing Act of 
2014’’. 
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 
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) TEXT MESSAGING SERVICE.—Section 227(e)(8) 
of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 227(e)(8)) 
is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ‘‘(includ-
ing a text message sent using a text messaging serv-
ice)’’ before the period at the end; 
(2) 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 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(D) 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 
received by a device that is identified as the 
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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. 
‘‘(E) 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.’’. 
(c) 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-
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nate traffic to, or terminate traffic from, the public 
switched telephone network, or a successor network.’’. 
(d) REGULATIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 227(e)(3)(A) of the 
Communications 
Act 
of 
1934 
(47 
U.S.C. 
227(e)(3)(A)) 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 Commission’’. 
(2) DEADLINE.—The Federal Communications 
Commission shall prescribe regulations to implement 
the amendments made by this section not later than 
18 months after the date of the enactment of this 
Act. 
(e) 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. 
Passed the House of Representatives September 9, 
2014. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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