Legislative Oversight

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Canonical URL: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5200

Official text excerpt

119 HR 5200 IH: Emergency Reporting Act 
 U.S. House of Representatives 
 2025-09-08 
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 Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. 
 
 
 
 I 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5200 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 8, 2025 Ms. Matsui (for herself and Mr. Bilirakis ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 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, and for other purposes. 
 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Emergency Reporting Act . 2. Reports after activation of Disaster Information Reporting System; improvements to network outage reporting (a) Reports after activation of Disaster Information Reporting System (1) Public hearings (A) Requirement Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Commission shall hold not less than 1 public hearing relating to all events during the preceding 1-year period for which the System was activated for not less than 7 days. 
 (B) Inclusion of certain individuals in hearings For each public hearing held under subparagraph (A), the Commission shall consider including— (i) representatives of State governments, local governments, or Indian tribal governments in areas affected by such events; 
 (ii) residents of the areas affected by such events, or consumer advocates; (iii) providers of communications services affected by such events; 
 (iv) faculty of institutions of higher education; (v) representatives of other Federal agencies; 
 (vi) electric utility providers; (vii) communications infrastructure companies; and 
 (viii) first responders, emergency managers, or 9–1–1 directors in areas affected by such events. (2) Reports Not later than 120 days after the date on whic…

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