All Roll Calls
Yes: 386 • No: 7
HR5200119th CongressWALLET
Emergency Reporting Act
Sponsored By: Representative Matsui, Doris O. [D-CA-7]
Passed House
Summary
Strengthen reporting on extended communications outages by requiring the Federal Communications Commission to hold public hearings and publish detailed post-activation reports tied to the Disaster Information Reporting System. It would also require a one-year study on adding visual information to outage notifications to help emergency communications centers.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
Stronger outage reporting for 9-1-1 and internet
If enacted, the FCC would hold at least one public hearing each year, starting within 1 year after enactment. Hearings would focus on disasters when its outage reporting system ran for 7 days or more in the prior year. The FCC would seek input from state, local, and Tribal officials, residents, providers, utilities, first responders, and others in affected areas. Within 120 days after each hearing, the FCC would post a report on its website. Reports would list outage counts and lengths for broadband, VoIP, and mobile voice and data; the approximate number of users and infrastructure affected; and outages that kept 9-1-1 centers from getting caller location or routing. Reports would recommend steps to strengthen networks, use available FCC data and hearing input, and keep confidential information private under FCC rules. Separately, within 1 year of enactment, the FCC would publish a study on adding visual info to outage alerts for 9-1-1 centers, how many 9-1-1 outages go unreported under current thresholds, the safety value versus burden on providers, and any rule changes it recommends.
Limits on FCC power over broadband
If enacted, the bill would make clear the FCC has no authority over broadband providers beyond what this section expressly grants. This would limit new rules under this section to its narrow scope. It would mainly affect providers and how the FCC could act. Households would see only indirect effects.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Matsui, Doris O. [D-CA-7]
CA • D
Cosponsors
Bilirakis
FL • R
Sponsored 9/8/2025
Barragan
CA • D
Sponsored 9/17/2025
Roll Call Votes
house vote • 4/20/2026
On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass
Yes: 386 • No: 7