Enhancing First Response Act

This bill requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to publish reports when a major disaster or severe weather event disrupts phone and communication services for at least seven days, including details about outages and recommendations for improving networks. The FCC must also hold public hearings in affected areas and publish a separate report about 9-1-1 outages. The bill requires that public safety telecommunicators, like 9-1-1 dispatchers, be officially classified as protective service workers, similar to other emergency responders. It also directs the FCC's inspector general to report on how well a law called Kari's Law is being followed, which requires office and hotel phone systems to let people dial 9-1-1 directly without needing to press extra numbers first.

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