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FCC would review major disaster outages and study 9-1-1 reporting

Officially: Emergency Reporting Act

The FCC would have to publicly review major phone and internet outages after serious disasters. It would also study whether 9-1-1 outage notices should include maps or other visuals. The bill says it does not give the FCC broad new power over broadband providers.

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What this bill actually does

The FCC would have to hold at least one public hearing each year on certain disaster events from the prior year. That applies when the FCC's Disaster Information Reporting System was turned on for seven days or more.
The FCC would have to publish a public report within 120 days after each hearing. The report would sum up known outages involving broadband, internet phone service that connects to the regular phone network, mobile phone service, and mobile data service.
Each report would have to estimate how many users were affected and how much communication equipment or infrastructure was hit. The FCC must base that estimate on information it already has.

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Latest: Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 375. (4/21/2026)

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