H.R. 5200: Emergency Reporting Act
Sponsor
Doris Matsui
Democrat · CA-7
What H.R. 5200 does
H.R. 5200 would require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to publish a report on 9-1-1 outages that current rules do not require providers to report, on whether adding visual information to outage notifications would be useful, and on rule changes to address these issues.
The FCC would also have to hold an annual public hearing on each event that kept the Disaster Information Reporting System active for at least a week. After each hearing it would issue a report on the number, duration and nature of the outages, with recommendations for making communications networks more resilient. Reports would generally be posted on the FCC website.
How the House voted
Passed · April 20, 20267 Republicans broke with their party to vote no
Eric Burlison
Michael Cloud
Pat Harrigan
Andy Harris
Thomas Massie
Chip Roy
Keith SelfOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass: H R 5200 Emergency Reporting Act · Roll no. 126 · Official record
HR5200 Legislative Journey
Sent to Senate
Apr 21, 2026
Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 375.
House: Vote: 386-7
Apr 20, 2026
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 386 - 7 (Roll no. 126). (text: CR H2974-2975)
House: Committee Action
Apr 9, 2026
Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 119-597.
House: Vote Held
Jan 15, 2026
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote.
House: Committee Action
Sep 8, 2025
Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
About the Sponsor
Doris Matsui
Democrat, California's 7th congressional district · 21 years in Congress
Committees: Energy and Commerce
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Cosponsors (2)
This bill has 2 cosponsors: 1 Democrat, 1 Republican, reflecting bipartisan support. Cosponsors represent 2 states: California, Florida.
Committee Sponsors
Energy and Commerce Committee
2 of 54 committee members cosponsored
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H.R. 5200 Quick Facts
- Committee
- Energy and Commerce
- Chamber
- House
- Policy
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Introduced
- Sep 8, 2025
Passed the House, received in Senate
Apr 21, 2026
H.R. 5200 Bill Text
“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.”
Source: U.S. Government Publishing Office
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