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Education and ScienceH.R. 5200Comments

Emergency Reporting Act

Official title: To direct the Federal Communications Commission to issue reports after activation of the Disaster Information Reporting System and to make improvements to network outage reporting, and for other purposes.

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What This Bill Does

This bill requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to investigate and report on emergency communications outages (e.g., 9-1-1 outages).

Specifically, the FCC must publish a general report on (1) the volume and nature of 9-1-1 outages that are not required to be reported under current outage notification rules, (2) the value and practicality of including visual information in outage notifications from communications providers, and (3) recommended changes to FCC rules to address these issues.

Separately, the FCC must hold annual public hearings on events for which the Disaster Information Reporting System (DIRS) was activated for at least a week. (DIRS is a reporting system that is activated during severe weather and other events impacting communications service. It enables communications providers to report outages and other degradations to service.) After each such hearing, the FCC must issue a report that includes information about the number, duration, and nature of all associated outages, along with recommendations for improving the resiliency of affected communications services or networks. Such reports must generally be made public on the FCC website.

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Timeline

  1. SenateReceived in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 375.
  2. House floor actionsMr. Allen moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
  3. Floor Vote
  4. Passed the House
  5. House floor actionsReported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 119-597.
  6. House committee actionsSubcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
  7. Library of CongressIntroduced in House
  8. House floor actionsReferred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
  9. House committee actionsReferred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
  10. Introduced
  11. Committee

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