Senate

Enhancing First Response Act

Summary

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Enhancing First Response Act This bill requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to report on certain activations of the Disaster Information Reporting System (DIRS). DIRS is a reporting system that is activated during severe weather and other events impacting communications service and enables communications providers to report outages and other...

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Bill Progress

Passed Senate, sent to House

Introduced(2/25/25)

Committee

Passed House

Passed Senate

President

Law

Sponsor

Ms. Klobuchar

Senate (D) Minnesota

Cosponsors (12)

Crapo

Senate (R) Idaho

Markey

Senate (D) Massachusetts

Thune

Senate (R) South Dakota

Budd

Senate (R) North Carolina

Blackburn

Senate (R) Tennessee

Kelly

Senate (D) Arizona

Sullivan

Senate (R) Alaska

King

Senate (I) Maine

Cantwell

Senate (D) Washington

Capito

Senate (R) West Virginia

Topics

Government Spending & Operations

Science & Technology

Employment

Latest Action

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