Emergency Reporting Act

This bill requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to look into and report on emergency communications outages, like when 9-1-1 systems go down. The FCC would have to publish a report on outages that currently don't have to be reported, consider whether pictures or visual details should be included in outage reports from communications companies, and suggest changes to its rules. The bill also requires the FCC to hold yearly public hearings about major events, like severe weather, that caused widespread communication problems lasting at least a week, and then publish reports with details about those outages and recommendations for making communication systems stronger. These reports would generally be posted on the FCC's website for the public to see.

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