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S. 725 119th Congress Senate

Enhancing First Response Act

Official title: A bill to direct the Federal Communications Commission to issue reports after activation of the Disaster Information Reporting System and to make improvements … Show full official titleShow less

Official title: 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.

Introduced: February 25, 2025 Introduced by: Amy Klobuchar Democratic · Minnesota See on congress.gov
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Sep 11, 2025
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Sep 11, 2025
Held at the desk.
Sep 10, 2025
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
Sep 10, 2025
Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S6555; text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR S6555)
Sep 2, 2025
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Cruz with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 119-59.
Sep 2, 2025
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 146.
Apr 30, 2025
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Feb 25, 2025
Introduced in Senate
Feb 25, 2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
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Enhancing First Response Act

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 that is activated during severe weather and other events impacting communications service and enables communications providers to 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 for improving the resiliency of affected networks or recovery efforts.

Separately, the FCC must publish a general report on (1) the volume and nature of 9-1-1 outages that are not required to be reported under current outage notification rules, and (2) the value to public safety agencies of the inclusion of visual information in outage notifications from communications providers.

The bill also requires the Office of Management and Budget, by 30 days after the bill's enactment, to categorize public safety telecommunicators as a protective service occupation under the Standard Occupational Classification System.

Finally, the Office of the Inspector General of the FCC is directed to publish a report on the implementation of Kari’s Law, which requires multiline telephone systems to be preconfigured to allow users to dial 9-1-1 directly from any phone without dialing any additional code or prefix.

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Cantwell, Maria
Washington · Apr 29, 2025
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Crapo, Mike
Idaho · Mar 12, 2025
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Blackburn, Marsha
Tennessee · Feb 25, 2025
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Budd, Ted
North Carolina · Feb 25, 2025
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Capito, Shelley Moore
West Virginia · Feb 25, 2025
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Heinrich, Martin
New Mexico · Feb 25, 2025
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Kelly, Mark
Arizona · Feb 25, 2025
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King, Angus S., Jr.
Maine · Feb 25, 2025
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Luján, Ben Ray
New Mexico · Feb 25, 2025
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Markey, Edward J.
Massachusetts · Feb 25, 2025
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Sullivan, Dan
Alaska · Feb 25, 2025
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Thune, John
South Dakota · Feb 25, 2025
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 725: Enhancing First Response Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-725/
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"S. 725: Enhancing First Response Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-725/.
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S. 725, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-725/.
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