118th Congress · SENATE BILLBILL

S. 3556 — Enhancing First Response Act

“A bill to direct the Federal Communications Commission to issue reports after activation of the Disaster Information Reporting System and to make improvements to network outage reporting, to categorize public safety telecommunicators as a protective service occupation under the Standard Occupational Classification system, and for other purposes.”

Science, technology, communications

Introduced Dec 18, 2023

Last action Dec 18, 2023

Pipeline · Bill → Law

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Introduced

Dec 18, 2023

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Referred

Dec 18, 2023

Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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Committee

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Senate

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House floor

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Resolve Changes

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Signed

SummaryCRS Summary

This bill requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to report on certain activations of the Disaster Information Reporting System (DIRS). DIRS is a reporting system, activated during severe weather and other events impacting communications service, through which communications providers report outages and other degradations to service. If the system was activated for at least seven days, the FCC must issue a preliminary report that includes information about the number, duration, and nature of all associated outages. The FCC must also hold at least one public field hearing in the area affected by the event, and it must issue a final report that includes recommendations on how to...

Provisions · 4 sectionsIntroduced in Senate

Timeline · 2 actions

Dec 18, 2023

Introduced in Senate

Dec 18, 2023

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.