Emergency Reporting Act – 9-1-1 Outage Investigation
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2026-07-22 — Disaster Communications Coordination and Preparedness Act: cross-connection with disaster-communications-coordination-preparedness: Related legislative efforts to strengthen federal visibility and coordination during communications emergencies. (novelty: 2)
- 2026-04-21 — Emergency Reporting Act: HR5200 as introduced would require the FCC to investigate 9-1-1 outages not covered by current notification rules, assess visual outage notifications, hold annual public hearings on any DIRS activation lasting multiple weeks, and publish reports with recommended rule changes to improve emergency communications resiliency. (novelty: 3)