1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Repeated Objectionable Bothering of Consumers on Phones Act or the ROBOCOP Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The incidence of unwanted telephone calls and text messages is a nationwide nuisance. (2) The Federal Trade Commission received more than— (A) 5,300,000 complaints about unwanted telephone calls in fiscal year 2016; and (B) 7,000,000 such complaints in fiscal year 2017. (3) Telephone scammers target vulnerable consumers, particularly the elderly. (4) The national do-not-call registry has effectively addressed unwanted telephone calls from legitimate companies, but consumers continue to be subject to unwanted calls originating from sources outside the United States and illegitimate operators. (5) Telemarketing fraud cost consumers an estimated $350,000,000 in 2011. (6) Existing Federal law is inadequate to address this problem. (7) Preventing unwanted telephone calls and text messages from reaching consumers requires 2 approaches: (A) Identifying unwanted calls and text messages. (B) Giving the consumers the ability to block or filter unwanted calls and text messages. 3. Definitions In this Act: (1) Caller identification information; text message The terms caller identification information and text message have the meanings given those terms in section 227(a) of the Communications Act of 1934 ( 47 U.S.C. 227(a) ), as amended by this Act. (2) Commission The term Commission means the Federal Communications Commission. 4. Expanding and clarifying prohibition on inaccurate caller ID information (a) Text messaging service Section 227 of the Communications Act of 1934 ( 47 U.S.C. 227 ), as amended by section 503(a) of division P of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 ( Public Law 115–141 ), is amended— (1) in subsection (a)— (A) by redesignating paragraphs (2), (3), (4), and (5) as paragraphs (4), (5), (6), and (9), respectively