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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 1027
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require disclosures with respect
to robocalls using artificial intelligence and to provide for enhanced
penalties for certain violations involving artificial intelligence voice or
text message impersonation, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY5, 2025
Mr. S
ORENSEN(for himself and Mr. CISCOMANI) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
A BILL
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require disclo-
sures with respect to robocalls using artificial intelligence
and to provide for enhanced penalties for certain viola-
tions involving artificial intelligence voice or text message
impersonation, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Quashing Unwanted 4
and Interruptive Electronic Telecommunications Act’’ or 5
the ‘‘QUIET Act’’. 6
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SEC. 2. DISCLOSURE REQUIRED FOR ROBOCALLS USING AI. 1
Section 227 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 2
U.S.C. 227) is amended by adding at the end the fol-3
lowing: 4
‘‘(k) D
ISCLOSUREREQUIRED FOR ROBOCALLS 5
U
SINGAI.— 6
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—If a person making a 7
robocall uses artificial intelligence to emulate a 8
human being, such person shall disclose at the be-9
ginning of the call or text message the fact that arti-10
ficial intelligence is being used. 11
‘‘(2) D
EFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 12
‘‘(A) R
OBOCALL.— 13
‘‘(i) I
N GENERAL .—The term 14
‘robocall’ means a call made or text mes-15
sage sent— 16
‘‘(I) using equipment, whether 17
hardware, software, or a combination 18
thereof and including an automatic 19
telephone dialing system, that makes 20
a call or sends a text message to— 21
‘‘(aa) stored telephone num-22
bers; or 23
‘‘(bb) telephone numbers 24
produced using a random or se-25
quential number generator; or 26
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‘‘(II) using an artificial or 1
prerecorded voice or an artificially 2
generated message. 3
‘‘(ii) L
IMITATION.—For purposes of 4
clause (i)(I), the term ‘robocall’ does not 5
include a call made or text message sent 6
using equipment that requires substantial 7
human intervention to make or send the 8
call or text message. 9
‘‘(B) T
EXT MESSAGE.— 10
‘‘(i) I
N GENERAL.—The term ‘text 11
message’ means a message consisting of 12
text, images, sounds, or other information 13
that is transmitted to or from a device that 14
is identified as the receiving or transmit-15
ting device by means of a 10-digit tele-16
phone number, N11 service code, short 17
code telephone number, or email address, 18
or that is transmitted through application- 19
to-person messaging, and includes— 20
‘‘(I) a short message service 21
(commonly referred to as ‘SMS’) mes-22
sage; 23
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‘‘(II) a multimedia message serv-1
ice (commonly referred to as ‘MMS’) 2
message; and 3
‘‘(III) a rich communication serv-4
ice (commonly referred to as ‘RCS’) 5
message. 6
‘‘(ii) L
IMITATION.—The term ‘text 7
message’ does not include a real-time, two- 8
way voice or video communication.’’. 9
SEC. 3. ENHANCED PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS INVOLV-10
ING AI VOICE OR TEXT MESSAGE IMPERSON-11
ATION. 12
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Section 227 of the Communica-13
tions Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 227), as amended by the 14
preceding provisions of this Act, is further amended by 15
adding at the end the following: 16
‘‘(l) E
NHANCEDPENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONSIN-17
VOLVINGAI VOICE ORTEXTMESSAGEIMPERSON-18
ATION.—In the case of a violation of this section with re-19
spect to which the party making the call or sending the 20
text message uses artificial intelligence to impersonate an 21
individual or entity with the intent to defraud, cause 22
harm, or wrongfully obtain anything of value— 23
‘‘(1) the maximum amount of the forfeiture 24
penalty that may be imposed under subsection (b)(4) 25
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or (e)(5)(A) of this section or subsection (b) of sec-1
tion 503 (as the case may be) shall be twice the 2
maximum amount that may be imposed for such vio-3
lation under such subsection without regard to this 4
subsection; and 5
‘‘(2) the maximum amount of the criminal fine 6
that may be imposed under subsection (e)(5)(B) of 7
this section or section 501 (as the case may be) shall 8
be twice the maximum amount that may be imposed 9
for such violation under such subsection or section 10
without regard to this subsection.’’. 11
(b) A
PPLICABILITY.—The amendment made by sub-12
section (a) shall apply with respect to violations occurring 13
after the date of the enactment of this Act. 14
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