Emergency Reporting Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 5200 Placed on Calendar Senate (PCS)] <DOC> Calendar No. 375 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5200 _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES April 21, 2026 Received; read twice and placed on the calendar _______________________________________________________________________ AN ACT To direct the Federal Communications Commission to issue reports after activation of the Disaster Information Reporting System and to make improvements to network outage reporting, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Emergency Reporting Act''. SEC. 2. REPORTS AFTER ACTIVATION OF DISASTER INFORMATION REPORTING SYSTEM; IMPROVEMENTS TO NETWORK OUTAGE REPORTING. (a) Reports After Activation of Disaster Information Reporting System.-- (1) Public hearings.-- (A) Requirement.--Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Commission shall hold not less than 1 public hearing relating to all events during the preceding 1-year period for which the System was activated for not less than 7 days. (B) Inclusion of certain individuals in hearings.-- For each public hearing held under subparagraph (A), the Commission shall consider including-- (i) representatives of State governments, local governments, or Indian tribal governments in areas affected by such events; (ii) residents of the areas affected by such events, or consumer advocates; (iii) providers of communications services affected by such events; (iv) faculty of institutions of higher education; (v) representatives of other Federal agencies; (vi) electric utility providers; (vii) communications infrastructure companies; and (viii) first responders, emergency managers, or 9-1-1 directors in area