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Union Calendar No. 423 
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 3670 
[Report No. 113–572] 
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 
SEPTEMBER 8, 2014 
Additional sponsors: Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. BEN RAY LUJA´N of New Mexico, 
Ms. MATSUI, Mr. DINGELL, Mr. MEEKS, Mr. CUMMINGS, Mr. DELANEY, 
Ms. EDWARDS, Mrs. ELLMERS, Ms. ESHOO, Mr. LATTA, Mr. GUTHRIE, 
Mr. SHIMKUS, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. SARBANES, Mr. BRALEY of Iowa, Mr. 
KINZINGER of Illinois, Mr. WELCH, Mr. WALDEN, Mr. LONG, Mr. LAN-
GEVIN, and Mr. RUSH 
SEPTEMBER 8, 2014 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on December 5, 2013] 
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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. 
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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 
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 mes-
sage’ means a real-time or near real-time mes-
sage consisting of text, images, sounds, or other 
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information that is transmitted from or received 
by a device that is identified as the transmitting 
or receiving device by means of a telephone num-
ber. Such term— 
‘‘(i) includes a short message service 
(SMS) message, an enhanced message serv-
ice (EMS) message, and a multimedia mes-
sage 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 per-
mits the transmission or receipt of a text mes-
sage, including a service provided as part of or 
in connection with a telecommunications service 
or an IP-enabled voice service.’’. 
(c) COVERAGE OF OUTGOING-CALL-ONLY IP-ENABLED 
VOICE SERVICE.—Section 227(e)(8)(C) of the Communica-
tions Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 227(e)(8)(C)) is amended by 
striking ‘‘has the meaning’’ and all that follows and insert-
ing ‘‘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, transmitted using Internet protocol, 
or a successor protocol, (whether part of a bundle of services 
or separately) with interconnection capability such that the 
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service can originate traffic to, or terminate traffic from, 
the public switched telephone network, or a successor net-
work.’’. 
(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 insert-
ing ‘‘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 Commission 
prescribes regulations to implement the amendments made 
by this section. 
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Union Calendar No. 423 
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 3670 
[Report No. 113–572] 
A BILL 
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to ex-
pand and clarify the prohibition on provision of 
inaccurate caller identification information, and 
for other purposes. 
SEPTEMBER 8, 2014 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed 
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