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Calendar No. 346
111th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 1258
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
April 15, 2010
Received; read twice and placed on the calendar
AN ACT
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit manipulation of caller ID information, and for other purposes.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the
Truth in Caller ID Act of
2010
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Prohibition regarding manipulation of caller ID information
Section 227 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 227) is amended—
by redesignating subsections (e), (f), and (g) as subsections (f), (g), and (h), respectively; and
by inserting after subsection (d) the following new subsection:
Prohibition on provision of deceptive caller ID information
In general
It shall be unlawful for any person within the United States, in connection with any real time voice communications service, regardless 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.
Protection for blocking caller ID information
Nothing in this subsection may be construed to prevent or restrict any person from blocking the capability of any caller ID service to transmit caller ID information.
Regulations
Deadline
Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this subsection, the Commission shall prescribe regulations to implement this subsection.
Consideration of related regulations
In conducting the proceeding to prescribe 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.
Law enforcement exception
This section does not prohibit lawfully authorized investigative, protective, or intelligence activity of a law enforcement 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 authorized under chapter 224 of title 18, United States Code.
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 requirements for transmission of caller ID information, issued pursuant to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (Public Law 102–243) and the amendments made by such Act.
Definitions
For purposes of this subsection:
Caller ID information
The term
caller ID information
means information provided to an end user
by a caller ID service regarding the name or the telephone number of the caller
or other information regarding the origination of a call made using any real
time voice communications service, regardless of the technology or network
utilized.
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 communications service, regardless of the technology
or network utilized. Such term includes automatic number identification
services.
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Passed the House of Representatives April 14, 2010.
Lorraine C. Miller,
Clerk
April 15, 2010
Received; read twice and placed on the calendar