Emergency Reporting Act

The bill puts two reporting duties on the Federal Communications Commission around communications outages during disasters. First, whenever the Disaster Information Reporting System has been activated for at least seven days, the Commission must hold at least one public hearing each year on those events, and it must consider including state, local, and tribal officials, affected residents, carriers, first responders, and others. Within 120 days of each hearing, the Commission must issue a report, to the extent known without collecting new information, on the number and duration of outages of broadband, VoIP, mobile, and mobile data service, the users and infrastructure affected, outages that cut off 911 centers from caller location or from routing emergency calls, and any recommendations to improve network resiliency. Those reports go on the Commission's website, with confidential information excluded. Second, within one year of enactment, the Commission must investigate and publish a report on the value to public-safety agencies of including visual information in outage notifications to 911 centers, the volume of 911 outages that may go unreported under current thresholds, the burden on service providers, and recommended rule changes. The bill states that nothing in it gives the Commission authority over broadband providers beyond what the section specifically authorizes.

At least 4 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 14 quarterly reports filed by 2 lobbying firms and by 3 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.

The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.

The organizations named: Competitive Carriers Association; CTIA-the Wireless Association; Peace Officers Research Association of California; AT&T Services Inc and Its Affiliates. Listed as filed. They are every client name on the filings counted here.

From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.