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The bill strengthens tools, coordination, and enforcement to reduce unlawful robocalls and better protect consumers, but does so at the cost of higher regulatory and implementation expenses, meaningful barriers and legal risks for some small or new providers, and privacy/transparency tradeoffs for affected parties.
All telephone subscribers and consumers will face fewer unlawful robocalls and scams because the bill strengthens caller-authentication, improves international coordination and traceback, and expands FCC enforcement tools.
Telecommunications providers, service operators, and technology vendors get clearer voluntary best practices plus legal protections for information sharing, enabling faster traceback and quicker blocking of bad actors.
Requiring bonds for high‑risk or unauthorised providers (with exemptions for listed/compliant firms) creates an enforcement funding backstop and deterrent against bad actors while protecting established providers from unnecessary costs.
Small or new providers may face up to $100,000 in bonding costs, raising entry barriers, harming small businesses and tech workers, and potentially increasing prices for consumers.
Creating and operating the taskforce, managing a bond program, and supporting the consortium will increase federal and regulatory administrative costs that are likely borne by taxpayers or passed on to consumers.
Publishing lists of suspected providers combined with broad legal immunity for the consortium risks reputational harm, limits legal recourse for providers harmed by inaccurate disclosures, and raises privacy exposure for callers and intermediaries.
Based on analysis of 5 sections of legislative text.
Creates a Taskforce on foreign-origin unlawful robocalls, allows FCC to require bonds for Robocall Database filings, reduces one TRACED Act notice to once every three years, and grants consortium immunity plus publication/enforcement powers.
Introduced November 19, 2025 by Addison P. McDowell · Last progress November 19, 2025
Creates a federal interagency Taskforce to study and combat unlawful robocalls originating outside the United States, strengthens FCC authority to require bonds from phone providers before they register in the Robocall Mitigation Database, and gives legal protections and new publication/enforcement powers to the registered traceback consortium and the FCC for information about providers that send or transmit large volumes of unlawful robocalls. It also reduces the frequency of a previously required FCC notice from annually to once every three years.