The Emergency Reporting Act aims to enhance communication and safety during disasters by improving how network outages are reported and analyzed. The main objective is to ensure that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) provides timely and detailed reports on communication outages that occur during emergencies, helping to improve future responses and resilience. Key provisions of the Act require the FCC to hold public hearings after significant disasters, specifically when the Disaster Information Reporting System has been activated for at least seven days.