CBO Sees No New Costs to Anti-Spoofing Penalties Bill
The Anti-Spoofing Penalties Modernization Act (S-594) if enacted would be unlikely to cost any additional money for the FCC to implement because “we do not expect the number of cases pursued by the FCC to change,” the Congressional Budget Office…
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said in a Friday cost estimate. S-594, which the Senate Commerce Committee advanced in November (see 2111170071), would double the minimum fine per instance of illegal spoofing to $20,000 and up the maximum penalty to $2 million from $1 million. It would also extend the statute of limitations for prosecuting spoofing violations to three years from two years. S-594 “would increase collections of civil forfeiture penalties … by an insignificant amount over the 2022-2031 period,” CBO said. “The FCC does not typically seek the maximum penalty allowed under current law and though the commission has assessed millions of dollars in forfeiture penalties over the past five years, it has only collected about $25,000.”