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The bill improves 911 reliability, transparency, and workforce data—strengthening emergency response and planning—while creating new reporting, administrative, and potential compliance/confidentiality costs for providers and agencies.
Emergency callers, PSAPs, hospitals, and law enforcement will get clearer, more actionable outage and 911-access information (including study of visual notifications and stronger Kari's Law enforcement), improving emergency response and public safety.
Consumers, communities, and state/local governments will benefit from greater FCC transparency through post-event outage reports (counts, durations, and affected users/infrastructure) that support planning and accountability.
Public-safety telecommunicators and emergency services will be formally reclassified as protective-service workers, improving statistical visibility and aligning federal workforce data to support planning and funding decisions.
Broadband and originating-service providers, and equipment manufacturers, could face new reporting, technical, or compliance costs if recommendations lead to expanded outage- or visual-notification requirements, raising costs for small providers and potentially consumers.
Publishing detailed outage reports risks revealing competitive or sensitive operational details, creating confidentiality and security concerns for providers and critical infrastructure operators.
New reporting, study, and hearing requirements will increase FCC staff workload and administrative costs, potentially diverting resources or requiring additional appropriations.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Requires the FCC to hold post‑outage hearings and publish detailed outage and 911 reports, directs OMB to reclassify telecommunicators in the SOC, and orders an FCC report on MLTS/911 enforcement.
Introduced February 25, 2025 by Amy Klobuchar · Last progress September 11, 2025
Requires the FCC to hold public hearings and publish detailed reports after prolonged activations of the Disaster Information Reporting System, including outage counts, durations, affected users and impacts on 911 services; directs the FCC to study visual outage notifications to 911 centers. Directs OMB to reclassify public safety telecommunicators in the federal occupational classification system and requires the FCC to report on compliance and enforcement of the law requiring direct-dial 911 on multi-line telephone systems. The bill sets specific deadlines for reports and actions (30 days, 180 days, 1 year, and 120-day post‑hearing reports), limits public disclosure of confidential company data, and asks the FCC to propose recommendations for improving communications resilience and enforcement where needed.