Enhancing First Response Act

Summary

Enhancing First Response Act This bill requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to report on certain activations of the Disaster Information Reporting System (DIRS). DIRS is a reporting system, activated during severe weather and other events impacting communications service, through which communications providers report outages and other degradations to service. If the system was activated for at least seven days, the FCC must issue a preliminary report that includes information about the number, duration, and nature of all associated outages. The FCC must also hold at least one public field hearing in the area affected by the event, and it must issue a final report that includes recommendations on how to improve the resiliency of affected networks. Separately, 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, and (2) the value to public safety agencies of the inclusion of visual information in outage notifications from communications providers. The bill also requires the Office of Management and Budget, by 30 days after the bill's enactment, to categorize public safety telecommunicators as a protective service occupation under the Standard Occupational Classification System. Finally, the Office of the Inspector General of the FCC is directed to publish a report on the implementation of Kari’s Law, which requires multiline telephone systems to be preconfigured to allow users to dial 9-1-1 directly from any phone without dialing any additional code or prefix.

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Timeline

1. 18 December 2023

   Introduced

   Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 18 December 2023

   Introduced

   Introduced in Senate

   Source: IntroReferral

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Sponsors

• Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN] · D · Sponsor
• Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN] · R · Sponsor
• Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM] · D · Sponsor
• Sen. Thune, John [R-SD] · R · Sponsor
• Sen. King, Angus S., Jr. [I-ME] · I · Cosponsor
• Sen. Budd, Ted [R-NC] · R · Cosponsor
• Sen. Luján, Ben Ray [D-NM] · D · Cosponsor
• Sen. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV] · R · Cosponsor
• Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID] · R · Cosponsor
• Sen. Manchin, Joe, III [D-WV] · D · Cosponsor
• Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK] · R · Cosponsor
• Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT] · D · Cosponsor
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Related records

• related to ← Emergency Reporting Act