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S. 725119th CongressScience, Technology, Communications
Enhancing First Response Act
Sponsored by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) · 12 active : 6 Republicans, 5 Democrats, 1 Independent
Latest action: Held at the desk.
Where it standsBefore the Senate6 senators score as swing votes
Passed Senate
- Senate: passedSep 10, 2025
- House: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govEnhancing 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 degradations to service.
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If the system was activated for at least seven days, the FCC must issue a preliminary report that includes information about the number, duration, and nature of all associated outages. The FCC must also hold at least one public field hearing in the area affected by the event, and it must issue a final report that includes recommendations for improving the resiliency of affected networks or recovery efforts.
Separately, the FCC must publish a general report on (1) the volume and nature of 9-1-1 outages that are not required to be reported under current outage notification rules, and (2) the value to public safety agencies of the inclusion of visual information in outage notifications from communications providers.
The bill also requires the Office of Management and Budget, by 30 days after the bill's enactment, to categorize public safety telecommunicators as a protective service occupation under the Standard Occupational Classification System.
Finally, the Office of the Inspector General of the FCC is directed to publish a report on the implementation of Kari’s Law, which requires multiline telephone systems to be preconfigured to allow users to dial 9-1-1 directly from any phone without dialing any additional code or prefix.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation · SenateReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Subjects
- Congressional oversight
- Emergency communications systems
- Emergency planning and evacuation
- First responders and emergency personnel
- Government information and archives
- Government studies and investigations
- Telephone and wireless communication
How the Senate breaks down
- 6Swing 70–100
- 55Middle 30–70
- 39Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v2Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
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Cosponsors
12 activeShow all 12 cosponsors
- Angus S. King Jr. (I-ME)
- Ben Ray Luján (D-NM)
- Dan Sullivan (R-AK)
- Edward J. Markey (D-MA)
- John Thune (R-SD)
- Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
- Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
- Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
- Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)
- Ted Budd (R-NC)
- Mike Crapo (R-ID)
- Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
