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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 725 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To direct the Federal Communications Commission to issue reports after |
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| 6 | 6 | | activation of the Disaster Information Reporting System and to make |
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| 7 | 7 | | improvements to network outage reporting, to categorize public safety |
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| 8 | 8 | | telecommunicators as a protective service occupation under the Standard |
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| 9 | 9 | | Occupational Classification system, and for other purposes. |
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| 10 | 10 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 11 | 11 | | FEBRUARY25, 2025 |
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| 12 | 12 | | Ms. K |
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| 13 | 13 | | LOBUCHAR(for herself, Mrs. BLACKBURN, Mr. HEINRICH, Mr. SUL- |
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| 14 | 14 | | LIVAN, Mr. LUJA´N, Mrs. CAPITO, Mr. MARKEY, Mr. BUDD, Mr. KING, |
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| 15 | 15 | | Mr. T |
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| 16 | 16 | | HUNE, and Mr. KELLY) introduced the following bill; which was |
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| 17 | 17 | | read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and |
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| 18 | 18 | | Transportation |
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| 19 | 19 | | A BILL |
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| 20 | 20 | | To direct the Federal Communications Commission to issue |
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| 21 | 21 | | reports after activation of the Disaster Information Re- |
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| 22 | 22 | | porting System and to make improvements to network |
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| 23 | 23 | | outage reporting, to categorize public safety telecommu- |
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| 24 | 24 | | nicators as a protective service occupation under the |
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| 25 | 25 | | Standard Occupational Classification system, and for |
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| 26 | 26 | | other purposes. |
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| 27 | 27 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 28 | 28 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1 |
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| 33 | 33 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Enhancing First Re-2 |
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| 34 | 34 | | sponse Act’’. 3 |
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| 35 | 35 | | SEC. 2. REPORTS AFTER ACTIVATION OF DISASTER INFOR-4 |
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| 36 | 36 | | MATION REPORTING SYSTEM; IMPROVE-5 |
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| 37 | 37 | | MENTS TO NETWORK OUTAGE REPORTING. 6 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (a) D |
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| 39 | 39 | | EFINITIONS.—In this section: 7 |
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| 40 | 40 | | (1) A |
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| 41 | 41 | | UTOMATIC LOCATION INFORMATION ; 8 |
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| 42 | 42 | | AUTOMATIC NUMBER IDENTIFICATION .—The terms 9 |
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| 43 | 43 | | ‘‘Automatic Location Information’’ and ‘‘Automatic 10 |
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| 44 | 44 | | Number Identification’’ have the meanings given 11 |
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| 45 | 45 | | those terms in section 9.3 of title 47, Code of Fed-12 |
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| 46 | 46 | | eral Regulations, or any successor regulation. 13 |
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| 47 | 47 | | (2) B |
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| 48 | 48 | | ROADBAND INTERNET ACCESS SERVICE .— 14 |
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| 49 | 49 | | The term ‘‘broadband internet access service’’ has 15 |
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| 50 | 50 | | the meaning given the term in section 8.1(b) of title 16 |
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| 51 | 51 | | 47, Code of Federal Regulations, or any successor 17 |
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| 52 | 52 | | regulation. 18 |
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| 53 | 53 | | (3) C |
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| 54 | 54 | | OMMERCIAL MOBILE SERVICE .—The term 19 |
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| 55 | 55 | | ‘‘commercial mobile service’’ has the meaning given 20 |
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| 56 | 56 | | the term in section 332(d) of the Communications 21 |
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| 57 | 57 | | Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 332(d)). 22 |
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| 58 | 58 | | (4) C |
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| 59 | 59 | | OMMERCIAL MOBILE DATA SERVICE .—The 23 |
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| 60 | 60 | | term ‘‘commercial mobile data service’’ has the 24 |
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| 61 | 61 | | meaning given the term in section 6001 of the Mid-25 |
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| 64 | 64 | | •S 725 IS |
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| 65 | 65 | | dle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 1 |
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| 66 | 66 | | (47 U.S.C. 1401). 2 |
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| 67 | 67 | | (5) C |
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| 68 | 68 | | OMMISSION.—The term ‘‘Commission’’ 3 |
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| 69 | 69 | | means the Federal Communications Commission. 4 |
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| 70 | 70 | | (6) I |
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| 71 | 71 | | NDIAN TRIBAL GOVERNMENT ; LOCAL GOV-5 |
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| 72 | 72 | | ERNMENT.—The terms ‘‘Indian tribal government’’ 6 |
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| 73 | 73 | | and ‘‘local government’’ have the meanings given 7 |
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| 74 | 74 | | those terms in section 102 of the Robert T. Stafford 8 |
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| 75 | 75 | | Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 9 |
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| 76 | 76 | | U.S.C. 5122). 10 |
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| 77 | 77 | | (7) I |
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| 78 | 78 | | NTERCONNECTED VOIP SERVICE ; STATE.— 11 |
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| 79 | 79 | | The terms ‘‘interconnected VoIP service’’ and 12 |
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| 80 | 80 | | ‘‘State’’ have the meanings given those terms in sec-13 |
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| 81 | 81 | | tion 3 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 14 |
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| 82 | 82 | | U.S.C. 153). 15 |
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| 83 | 83 | | (8) M |
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| 84 | 84 | | ULTI-LINE TELEPHONE SYSTEM .—The 16 |
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| 85 | 85 | | term ‘‘multi-line telephone system’’ has the meaning 17 |
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| 86 | 86 | | given the term in section 721(f) of the Communica-18 |
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| 87 | 87 | | tions Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 623(f)). 19 |
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| 88 | 88 | | (9) O |
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| 89 | 89 | | UTAGE.—The term ‘‘outage’’ has the 20 |
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| 90 | 90 | | meaning given the term in section 4.5 of title 47, 21 |
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| 91 | 91 | | Code of Federal Regulations, or any successor regu-22 |
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| 92 | 92 | | lation. 23 |
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| 93 | 93 | | (10) P |
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| 94 | 94 | | UBLIC SAFETY ANSWERING POINT .—The 24 |
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| 95 | 95 | | term ‘‘public safety answering point’’ has the mean-25 |
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| 98 | 98 | | •S 725 IS |
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| 99 | 99 | | ing given the term in section 222(h) of the Commu-1 |
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| 100 | 100 | | nications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 222(h)). 2 |
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| 101 | 101 | | (11) S |
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| 102 | 102 | | YSTEM.—The term ‘‘System’’ means the 3 |
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| 103 | 103 | | Disaster Information Reporting System. 4 |
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| 104 | 104 | | (b) R |
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| 105 | 105 | | EPORTSAFTERACTIVATION OFDISASTERIN-5 |
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| 106 | 106 | | FORMATIONREPORTINGSYSTEM.— 6 |
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| 107 | 107 | | (1) P |
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| 108 | 108 | | RELIMINARY REPORT.— 7 |
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| 109 | 109 | | (A) I |
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| 110 | 110 | | N GENERAL.—Not later than 6 weeks 8 |
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| 111 | 111 | | after the deactivation of the System with re-9 |
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| 112 | 112 | | spect to an event for which the System was ac-10 |
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| 113 | 113 | | tivated for not less than 7 days, the Commis-11 |
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| 114 | 114 | | sion shall issue a preliminary report on, with 12 |
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| 115 | 115 | | respect to such event and to the extent 13 |
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| 116 | 116 | | known— 14 |
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| 117 | 117 | | (i) the number and duration of any 15 |
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| 118 | 118 | | outages of— 16 |
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| 119 | 119 | | (I) broadband internet access 17 |
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| 120 | 120 | | service; 18 |
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| 121 | 121 | | (II) interconnected VoIP service; 19 |
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| 122 | 122 | | (III) commercial mobile service; 20 |
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| 123 | 123 | | and 21 |
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| 124 | 124 | | (IV) commercial mobile data 22 |
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| 125 | 125 | | service; 23 |
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| 126 | 126 | | (ii) the approximate number of users 24 |
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| 127 | 127 | | or the amount of communications infra-25 |
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| 131 | 131 | | structure potentially affected by an outage 1 |
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| 132 | 132 | | described in clause (i); 2 |
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| 133 | 133 | | (iii) the number and duration of any 3 |
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| 134 | 134 | | outages that prevent public safety answer-4 |
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| 135 | 135 | | ing points from receiving caller location or 5 |
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| 136 | 136 | | number information or receiving emer-6 |
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| 137 | 137 | | gency calls and routing such calls to emer-7 |
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| 138 | 138 | | gency service personnel; and 8 |
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| 139 | 139 | | (iv) any additional information deter-9 |
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| 140 | 140 | | mined appropriate by the Commission. 10 |
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| 141 | 141 | | (B) D |
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| 142 | 142 | | EVELOPMENT OF REPORT .—The 11 |
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| 143 | 143 | | Commission shall develop the report required by 12 |
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| 144 | 144 | | subparagraph (A) using information collected 13 |
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| 145 | 145 | | by the Commission, including information col-14 |
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| 146 | 146 | | lected by the Commission through the System. 15 |
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| 147 | 147 | | (2) P |
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| 148 | 148 | | UBLIC FIELD HEARINGS.— 16 |
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| 149 | 149 | | (A) R |
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| 150 | 150 | | EQUIREMENT.—Not later than 8 17 |
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| 151 | 151 | | months after the deactivation of the System 18 |
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| 152 | 152 | | with respect to an event for which the System 19 |
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| 153 | 153 | | was activated for not less than 7 days, the 20 |
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| 154 | 154 | | Commission shall hold not less than 1 public 21 |
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| 155 | 155 | | field hearing in the area affected by such event. 22 |
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| 156 | 156 | | (B) I |
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| 157 | 157 | | NCLUSION OF CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS 23 |
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| 158 | 158 | | IN HEARINGS.—For each public field hearing 24 |
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| 162 | 162 | | held under subparagraph (A), the Commission 1 |
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| 163 | 163 | | shall consider including— 2 |
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| 164 | 164 | | (i) representatives of State govern-3 |
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| 165 | 165 | | ment, local government, or Indian tribal 4 |
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| 166 | 166 | | governments in areas affected by such 5 |
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| 167 | 167 | | event; 6 |
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| 168 | 168 | | (ii) residents of the areas affected by 7 |
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| 169 | 169 | | such event, or consumer advocates; 8 |
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| 170 | 170 | | (iii) providers of communications serv-9 |
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| 171 | 171 | | ices affected by such event; 10 |
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| 172 | 172 | | (iv) faculty of institutions of higher 11 |
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| 173 | 173 | | education; 12 |
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| 174 | 174 | | (v) representatives of other Federal 13 |
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| 175 | 175 | | agencies; 14 |
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| 176 | 176 | | (vi) electric utility providers; 15 |
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| 177 | 177 | | (vii) communications infrastructure 16 |
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| 178 | 178 | | companies; and 17 |
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| 179 | 179 | | (viii) first responders, emergency 18 |
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| 180 | 180 | | managers, or 9–1–1 directors in areas af-19 |
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| 181 | 181 | | fected by such event. 20 |
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| 182 | 182 | | (3) F |
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| 183 | 183 | | INAL REPORT.—Not later than 12 months 21 |
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| 184 | 184 | | after the deactivation of the System with respect to 22 |
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| 185 | 185 | | an event for which the System was activated for not 23 |
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| 186 | 186 | | less than 7 days, the Commission shall issue a final 24 |
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| 187 | 187 | | report that includes, with respect to such event— 25 |
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| 191 | 191 | | (A) the information described in paragraph 1 |
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| 192 | 192 | | (1)(A); and 2 |
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| 193 | 193 | | (B) any recommendations of the Commis-3 |
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| 194 | 194 | | sion on how to improve the resiliency of af-4 |
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| 195 | 195 | | fected communications or networks recovery ef-5 |
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| 196 | 196 | | forts. 6 |
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| 197 | 197 | | (4) D |
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| 198 | 198 | | EVELOPMENT OF REPORTS .—In devel-7 |
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| 199 | 199 | | oping a report required under this subsection, the 8 |
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| 200 | 200 | | Commission shall consider information collected by 9 |
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| 201 | 201 | | the Commission, including information collected by 10 |
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| 202 | 202 | | the Commission through the System, and any public 11 |
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| 203 | 203 | | hearing described in paragraph (2) with respect to 12 |
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| 204 | 204 | | the applicable event. 13 |
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| 205 | 205 | | (5) P |
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| 206 | 206 | | UBLICATION.—The Commission shall pub-14 |
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| 207 | 207 | | lish each report, excluding information that is other-15 |
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| 208 | 208 | | wise exempt from public disclosure under the rules 16 |
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| 209 | 209 | | of the Commission, issued under this subsection on 17 |
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| 210 | 210 | | the website of the Commission upon the issuance of 18 |
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| 211 | 211 | | such report. 19 |
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| 212 | 212 | | (c) I |
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| 213 | 213 | | MPROVEMENTS TO NETWORKOUTAGEREPORT-20 |
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| 214 | 214 | | ING.—Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment 21 |
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| 215 | 215 | | of this Act, the Commission shall investigate and publish 22 |
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| 216 | 216 | | a report on— 23 |
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| 217 | 217 | | (1) the value to public safety agencies of origi-24 |
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| 218 | 218 | | nating service providers including visual information 25 |
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| 222 | 222 | | to improve situational awareness about outages in 1 |
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| 223 | 223 | | the notifications provided to public safety answering 2 |
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| 224 | 224 | | points, as required by rules issued by the Commis-3 |
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| 225 | 225 | | sion; 4 |
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| 226 | 226 | | (2) the volume and nature of 911 outages that 5 |
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| 227 | 227 | | may go unreported under the outage notification 6 |
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| 228 | 228 | | thresholds of the Commission; and 7 |
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| 229 | 229 | | (3) recommended changes to rules issued by the 8 |
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| 230 | 230 | | Commission to address paragraphs (1) and (2). 9 |
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| 231 | 231 | | SEC. 3. REPORTING OF PUBLIC SAFETY TELECOMMUNICA-10 |
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| 232 | 232 | | TORS AS PROTECTIVE SERVICE OCCUPA-11 |
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| 233 | 233 | | TIONS. 12 |
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| 234 | 234 | | (a) F |
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| 235 | 235 | | INDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 13 |
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| 236 | 236 | | (1) Public safety telecommunicators play a crit-14 |
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| 237 | 237 | | ical role in emergency response, providing medical 15 |
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| 238 | 238 | | instruction, gathering lifesaving information, and 16 |
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| 239 | 239 | | protecting civilians and first responders. 17 |
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| 240 | 240 | | (2) The Standard Occupational Classification 18 |
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| 241 | 241 | | system is designed and maintained solely for statis-19 |
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| 242 | 242 | | tical purposes, and is used by Federal statistical 20 |
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| 243 | 243 | | agencies to classify workers and jobs into occupa-21 |
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| 244 | 244 | | tional categories for the purpose of collecting, calcu-22 |
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| 245 | 245 | | lating, analyzing, or disseminating data. 23 |
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| 246 | 246 | | (3) Occupations in the Standard Occupational 24 |
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| 247 | 247 | | Classification are classified based on work performed 25 |
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| 251 | 251 | | and, in some cases, on the skills, education, or train-1 |
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| 252 | 252 | | ing needed to perform the work. 2 |
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| 253 | 253 | | (4) Classifying public safety telecommunicators 3 |
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| 254 | 254 | | as a protective service occupation would correct an 4 |
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| 255 | 255 | | inaccurate representation in the Standard Occupa-5 |
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| 256 | 256 | | tional Classification, recognize these professionals 6 |
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| 257 | 257 | | for the lifesaving work they perform, and better 7 |
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| 258 | 258 | | align the Standard Occupational Classification with 8 |
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| 259 | 259 | | related classification systems. 9 |
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| 260 | 260 | | (b) S |
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| 261 | 261 | | TANDARDOCCUPATIONALCLASSIFICATIONSYS-10 |
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| 262 | 262 | | TEM.—The Director of the Office of Management and 11 |
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| 263 | 263 | | Budget shall, not later than 30 days after the date of en-12 |
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| 264 | 264 | | actment of this Act, categorize public safety telecommu-13 |
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| 265 | 265 | | nicators as a protective service occupation under the 14 |
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| 266 | 266 | | Standard Occupational Classification system. 15 |
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| 267 | 267 | | SEC. 4. REPORT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF THE KARI’S LAW 16 |
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| 268 | 268 | | ACT OF 2017. 17 |
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| 269 | 269 | | Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment 18 |
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| 270 | 270 | | of this Act, the Inspector General of the Commission shall 19 |
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| 271 | 271 | | publish a report regarding the enforcement by the Com-20 |
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| 272 | 272 | | mission of section 721 of the Communications Act of 1934 21 |
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| 273 | 273 | | (47 U.S.C. 623), which shall include— 22 |
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| 274 | 274 | | (1) a summary of the extent to which multi-line 23 |
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| 275 | 275 | | telephone system manufacturers and vendors have 24 |
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| 276 | 276 | | complied with that section; 25 |
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| 280 | 280 | | (2) potential difficulties and obstacles in com-1 |
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| 281 | 281 | | plying with that section; 2 |
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| 282 | 282 | | (3) recommendations to the Commission, if nec-3 |
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| 283 | 283 | | essary, on ways to improve the policies of the Com-4 |
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| 284 | 284 | | mission to better enforce that section; and 5 |
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| 285 | 285 | | (4) recommendations to Congress, if necessary, 6 |
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| 286 | 286 | | on further legislation that could mitigate problems 7 |
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| 287 | 287 | | like those that are addressed by that section. 8 |
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