Sponsors (25)
The bill strengthens anti‑robocall infrastructure, coordination, and enforcement to reduce illegal and spoofed calls, but does so at the cost of taxpayer-funded administration, new burdens on small/new providers, reduced reporting frequency, and privacy and legal‑recourse risks for some callers and providers.
Consumers and businesses: fewer unlawful robocalls and reduced fraud/identity-theft risk as the bill promotes coordinated federal recommendations, bond penalties for noncooperative providers, and stronger enforcement to deter bad actors.
Telephone providers and tech vendors: better ability to authenticate and trace calls because the bill encourages wider adoption of STIR/SHAKEN, issues best-practice guidance, and enables private-sector traceback data sharing without civil-liability risk.
Enforcers and the public: stronger enforcement posture — studies of DOJ resources, potential dedicated office, bond requirements, and FCC powers could increase the ability to identify, penalize, and prosecute unlawful callers.
Callers and some providers: publication of traceback or identification data could expose sensitive information and cause reputational harm without court review.
Entities wrongly identified: broad civil-immunity for consortium participants removes private civil remedies for parties harmed by misidentification, limiting legal recourse.
Small and new VoIP/communications providers and startups: mandatory bond requirements (up to $100,000) could raise startup costs or block market entry, harming competition and innovation.
Based on analysis of 5 sections of legislative text.
Creates an FCC‑led taskforce, allows FCC bonds for Database filings, reduces a TRACED Act reporting cadence, and gives a traceback consortium immunity and publication authority to fight inbound unlawful robocalls.
Official title: To direct the Federal Communications Commission to establish a taskforce on unlawful robocalls, and for other purposes.
Introduced November 19, 2025 by Addison P. McDowell · Last progress November 19, 2025
Creates a federal taskforce and new FCC powers to combat unlawful robocalls coming from outside the United States, tightens rules for the Robocall Mitigation Database, and gives a private traceback consortium immunity to share call data and publish lists of noncooperative or high-volume robocall providers. It also allows the FCC to require bonds from unproven providers before they certify in the robocall mitigation system, while authorizing exemptions for established, regulated carriers. The bill directs coordinated study and reporting on inbound unlawful robocalls, changes an existing TRACED Act reporting cadence, requires targeted FCC rulemaking to protect the integrity of traceback and mitigation systems, and expands publication and enforcement authority based on private-sector traceback results.