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110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2725 
To require the Federal Communications Commission to adopt regulations 
to protect subscribers to Internet protocol telephone services concerning 
the use of such services with alarm, security, and personal emergency 
response systems. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 14, 2007 
Mr. ENGEL (for himself and Mr. STEARNS) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To require the Federal Communications Commission to adopt 
regulations to protect subscribers to Internet protocol 
telephone services concerning the use of such services 
with alarm, security, and personal emergency response 
systems. 
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 ‘‘Alarm Customer VOIP 
Notification Act of 2007’’. 
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SEC. 2. REGULATIONS REQUIRED. 
(a) COMMISSION PROCEEDING REQUIRED.—Within 
45 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Fed-
eral Communications Commission shall commence a rule-
making to adopt regulations that will protect subscribers 
to VOIP services who utilize alarm, security, or personal 
emergency response systems in conjunction with VOIP 
services. 
(b) MINIMUM CONTENTS
OF REGULATIONS.—The 
rules required by this section shall ensure that subscribers 
to VOIP service are informed by clear and conspicuous 
disclosure by a VOIP service provider and by a manufac-
turer of VOIP equipment in all sales and instructional ma-
terials, and again before installation or number activation, 
of the steps the subscribers need to take to maintain the 
proper functioning of any alarm, security, or personal 
emergency response system that the subscriber intends to 
utilize in conjunction with VOIP service to provide moni-
toring services. Such steps shall include that each such 
customer should— 
(1) arrange with his or her emergency response 
system provider, if any, to test such system after in-
stallation; 
(2) notify his or her emergency response system 
provider as soon as the VOIP service is installed; 
and 
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(3) maintain a 24-hour battery backup for cus-
tomer premises equipment installed in connection 
with the VOIP service in order for the signaling of 
such system to function in the event of a power out-
age. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section: 
(1) VOIP SERVICE.—The term ‘‘VOIP service’’ 
means a service that— 
(A) provides real-time voice communica-
tions transmitted through end user equipment 
using Internet protocol, or a successor protocol, 
for a fee or without a fee; 
(B) is offered to the public, or such classes 
of users as to be effectively available to the 
public (whether part of a bundle of services or 
separately); and 
(C) has the capability to originate traffic 
to, or terminate traffic from, the public 
switched telephone network. 
(2) 
EMERGENCY
RESPONSE
SYSTEM.—The 
term ‘‘emergency response system’’ means an alarm 
or security system, or personal security or medical 
monitoring system, that is connected to an emer-
gency response center by means of a telecommuni-
cations carrier or VOIP service provider. 
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(3) EMERGENCY
RESPONSE
CENTER.—The 
term ‘‘emergency response center’’ means an entity 
that monitors transmissions from an emergency re-
sponse system. 
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