Official Summaries

This bill provides statutory authority for the application of certain technical and procedural standards to systems that transmit artificial or prerecorded telephone messages generated using artificial intelligence.

Specifically, the standards require (1) that such messages clearly identify and state the telephone number or address of the individual or entity initiating the call, and (2) that any system making such phone calls release a recipient’s telephone line within five seconds of notification that the recipient has ended the call. Such standards are prescribed and implemented by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and apply under current law to any system used to transmit an artificial or prerecorded voice message by telephone. 

The bill also permits the FCC to apply the standards to other technologies used to transmit artificial and prerecorded telephone messages as it deems appropriate. 

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 334 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 334

  To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to establish technical and 
   procedural standards for artificial or prerecorded voice systems 
   created through generative artificial intelligence, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 13, 2025

  Mr. Allen introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to establish technical and 
   procedural standards for artificial or prerecorded voice systems 
   created through generative artificial intelligence, 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. TECHNICAL AND PROCEDURAL STANDARDS FOR ARTIFICIAL OR 
              PRERECORDED VOICE SYSTEMS CREATED THROUGH GENERATIVE 
              ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

    Section 227(d)(3) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 
227(d)(3)) is amended by inserting ``(including those created through 
generative artificial intelligence (genAI), for example voice cloning, 
and other subsequent technologies as may be deemed appropriate by the 
Commission)'' after ``telephone''.
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