119-hr5200

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5200 Introduced in House

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 5200

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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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 September 8, 2025

 Ms. Matsui (for herself and Mr. Bilirakis) introduced the following 
 bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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 A BILL

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.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Emergency Reporting Act''.

SEC. 2. REPORTS AFTER ACTIVATION OF DISASTER INFORMATION REPORTING 
 SYSTEM; IMPROVEMENTS TO NETWORK OUTAGE REPORTING.

    (a) Reports After Activation of Disaster Information Reporting 
System.--

    (1) Public hearings.--
        (A) Requirement.--Not later than 1 year after the 
 date of the enactment of this Act, and annually 
 thereafter, the Commission shall hold not less than 1 
 public hearing relating to all events during the 
 preceding 1-year period for which the System was 
 activated for not less than 7 days.
        (B) Inclusion of certain individuals in hearings.--
 For each public hearing held under subparagraph
        (A) , 
 the Commission shall consider including--
            (i) representatives of State governments, 
 local governments, or Indian tribal governments 
 in areas affected by such events;
            (ii) residents of the areas affected by 
 such events, or consumer advocates;
            (iii) providers of communications services 
 affected by such events;
            (iv) faculty of institutions of higher 
 education;
            (v) representatives of other Federal 
 agencies;
            (vi) electric utility providers;
            (vii) communications infrastructure 
 companies; and
            (viii) first responders, emergency 
 managers, or 9-1-1 directors in areas affected 
 by such events.

    (2) Reports.--Not later than 120 days after the date on 
 which a public hearing held under paragraph

    (1) concludes, the 
 Commission shall issue a report that includes, with respect to 
 the events to which such hearing relates and to the extent 
 known without requiring the collection of additional 
 information--
        (A) the number and duration of any outages of--
            (i) broadband internet access service;
            (ii) interconnected VoIP service;
            (iii) commercial mobile service; and
            (iv) commercial mobile data service;
        (B) the approximate number of users and the amount 
 of communications infrastructure potentially affected 
 by an outage described in subparagraph
        (A) ;
            (C) the number and duration of any outages that 
 prevent emergency communications centers from receiving 
 caller location or number information or receiving 
 emergency calls and routing such calls to emergency 
 service personnel; and
            (D) any recommendations of the Commission on how to 
 improve the resiliency of affected communications 
 services or networks.

    (3) Development of reports.--In developing a report 
 required by paragraph

    (2) , the Commission shall consider 
 information collected by the Commission with respect to the 
 events to which such report relates, including information 
 collected through the System and the relevant public hearing.

    (4) Publication of reports.--
        (A) In general.--Except as provided in subparagraph
        (B) , the Commission shall publish each report required 
 by paragraph

    (2) on the website of the Commission upon 
 the issuance of such report.
        (B) Exclusion.--In publishing a report under 
 subparagraph
        (A) , the Commission shall exclude 
 information that is otherwise exempt from public 
 disclosure under the rules of the Commission or that 
 was submitted to the Commission with a proper request 
 for confidential treatment as described in 

section 0.459 of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations (or any 
 successor regulation).

    (b) Improvements to Network Outage Reporting.--Not later than 1 
year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Commission shall 
conduct an investigation and publish on the website of the Commission a 
report on--

    (1) the value to public safety agencies of originating 
 service providers including visual information to improve 
 situational awareness about outages in the notifications 
 provided to emergency communications centers, as required by 
 the rules of the Commission;

    (2) the volume and nature of 9-1-1 outages that may go 
 unreported under the outage notification thresholds of the 
 Commission;

    (3) the balance between the value described in paragraph

    (1) to public safety agencies and the burden and practicality 
 for originating service providers of including visual 
 information in outage notifications as described in such 
 paragraph; and

    (4) recommended changes to the rules of the Commission to 
 address the matters reported under paragraphs

    (1) and

    (2) .
            (c) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be 
construed to provide the Commission or any other person authority over 
any provider of broadband internet access service beyond what is 
specifically authorized under this section.
            (d) === Definitions. ===
-In this section:

    (1) Broadband internet access service.--The term 
 ``broadband internet access service'' has the meaning given 
 such term in 

section 8.1

    (b) of title 47, Code of Federal 
 Regulations (or any successor regulation).

    (2) Commercial mobile data service.--The term ``commercial 
 mobile data service'' has the meaning given such term in 
 

section 6001 of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation 
 Act of 2012 (47 U.S.C. 1401).

    (3) Commercial mobile service.--The term ``commercial 
 mobile service'' has the meaning given such term in 

section 332
            (d) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 332
            (d) ).

    (4) Commission.--The term ``Commission'' means the Federal 
 Communications Commission.

    (5) Emergency communications center.--
        (A) In general.--The term ``emergency 
 communications center'' means--
            (i) a facility that--
            (I) is designated to receive a 9-1-
 1 request for emergency assistance; and
            (II) performs 1 or more of the 
 functions described in subparagraph
        (B) ; or
            (ii) a public safety answering point (as 
 defined in 

section 222 of the Communications 
 Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 222)).
        (B) Functions described.--The functions described 
 in this subparagraph are the following:
            (i) Processing and analyzing 9-1-1 requests 
 for emergency assistance and information and 
 data related to such requests.
            (ii) Dispatching appropriate emergency 
 response providers.
            (iii) Transferring or exchanging 9-1-1 
 requests for emergency assistance and 
 information and data related to such requests 
 with 1 or more other emergency communications 
 centers and emergency response providers.
            (iv) Analyzing any communications received 
 from emergency response providers.
            (v) Supporting incident command functions.

    (6) Indian tribal government; local government.--The terms 
 ``Indian tribal government'' and ``local government'' have the 
 meanings given such terms in 

section 102 of the Robert T. 
 Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 
 U.S.C. 5122).

    (7) Interconnected voip service; state.--The terms 
 ``interconnected VoIP service'' and ``State'' have the meanings 
 given such terms in 

section 3 of the Communications Act of 1934 
 (47 U.S.C. 153).

    (8) Outage.--The term ``outage'' has the meaning given such 
 term in 

section 4.5 of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations 
 (or any successor regulation).

    (9) System.--The term ``System'' means the Disaster 
 Information Reporting System of the Commission.
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