Roboblock Act

Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this subsection, the Commission shall promulgate regulations that require a provider of voice service to offer a robocall-blocking service to each customer of the provider, at no additional charge to the customer.

In this subsection:

The term robocall means a call made or text message sent—

(I) 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—

(aa) stored telephone numbers; or

(bb) telephone numbers produced using a random or sequential number generator; or

(II) using an artificial or prerecorded voice or an artificially generated message.

For purposes of clause (i)(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.

The term robocall-blocking service means a service that gives a customer of a provider of voice service the ability to block robocalls that are highly likely to be illegal.

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—

(I) a short message service (commonly referred to as SMS) message;

(II) a multimedia message service (commonly referred to as MMS) message; and

(III) a rich communication service (commonly referred to as RCS) message.

The term text message does not include a real-time, two-way voice or video communication.

The term voice service has the meaning given such term in section 4(a) of the Pallone-Thune TRACED Act (47 U.S.C. 227b(a)).