Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Stop Scams and Spam Act”.
Stop Scams and Spam Act
A BILL
To direct the Federal Communications Commission to develop a framework and tracking system to monitor the top 100 illegal robocall campaigns and to publish a monthly report on such campaigns, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Tracking of top 100 illegal robocall campaigns
Framework and tracking system— Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Commission shall develop a framework and tracking system to monitor the top 100 robocall campaigns that primarily involve robocalls that are illegal or suspected to be illegal.
Monthly report— Not later than 1 month after developing the framework and tracking system required by subsection (a), and monthly thereafter, the Commission shall make available to the public on the website of the Commission a report, with respect to the preceding 1-month period, on the campaigns described in such subsection.
Definitions— In this section:
Commission— The term “Commission” means the Federal Communications Commission.
Robocall—
In general— The term “robocall” means a call made or text message sent—
using equipment, whether hardware, software, or a combination thereof and including an automatic telephone dialing system, that makes a call or sends a text message to—
stored telephone numbers; or
telephone numbers produced using a random or sequential number generator; or
using an artificial or prerecorded voice or an artificially generated message.
Limitation— For purposes of subparagraph (A)(i), the term “robocall” does not include a call made or text message sent using equipment that requires substantial human intervention to make or send the call or text message.
Text message—
In general— The term “text message” means a message consisting of text, images, sounds, or other information that is transmitted to or from a device that is identified as the receiving or transmitting device by means of a 10-digit telephone number, N11 service code, short code telephone number, or email address, or that is transmitted through application-to-person messaging, and includes—
a short message service (commonly referred to as “SMS”) message;
a multimedia message service (commonly referred to as “MMS”) message; and
a rich communication service (commonly referred to as “RCS”) message.
Limitation— The term “text message” does not include a real-time, two-way voice or video communication.