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The bill increases transparency and data-driven support for emergency communications and public‑safety workforce planning—helping responders, governments, and consumers—while imposing new reporting, compliance, and administrative burdens on providers, manufacturers, and federal agencies.
State, local, tribal governments, emergency agencies, infrastructure operators, and consumers will get regular, public FCC reporting on prolonged communications outages (counts, durations, affected users), improving transparency for disaster response planning and letting communities and customers assess network resilience and recovery performance.
First responders, 911 centers, and public-safety telecommunicators will benefit from outage reporting that flags when caller location/number or emergency call routing is blocked, enabling fixes that protect emergency communications and response.
Public-safety telecommunicators will be reclassified as protective service workers in federal occupational statistics, improving visibility of their role and supporting better workforce planning and resource allocation for emergency response.
Telecom service providers may face new reporting burdens and compliance costs from expanded data collection, hearings, and any subsequent rule changes, increasing operating costs for companies that maintain communications networks.
Manufacturers and vendors of MLTS and related equipment could incur increased compliance costs or need product changes if the FCC's report leads to stricter regulation or new technical requirements.
Statutory reclassification of public-safety telecommunicators could create discontinuities in time series occupational data, complicating trend analyses and program evaluation until methodologies are reconciled.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Introduced February 25, 2025 by Amy Klobuchar · Last progress September 11, 2025
Requires the Federal Communications Commission to hold annual public hearings and publish reports after extended activations of the Disaster Information Reporting System, including data on broadband, VoIP, mobile voice and data outages and impacts on 911 centers. Directs the FCC to study how visual information and current reporting thresholds affect 911 outage visibility and to publish an enforcement report on multi-line telephone system (MLTS) compliance. Also directs the Office of Management and Budget to reclassify public safety telecommunicators in the federal occupational classification system within short deadlines.