Kari's Law Act of 2017
- Last Action
- 8/4/2017
Actions
- 2017-08-04Held at the desk.
- 2017-08-04Received in the House.
- 2017-08-04Message on Senate action sent to the House.
- 2017-08-03Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4818-4819; text: CR S4818-4819)
- 2017-08-03Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S4818-4819; text: CR S4818-4819)
- 2017-07-10Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 164.
- 2017-07-10Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Thune without amendment. With written report No. 115-124.
- 2017-07-10Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Thune without amendment. With written report No. 115-124.
- 2017-01-24Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
- 2017-01-12Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
- 2017-01-12Introduced in Senate
CRS Summary
As of 2017-08-03 (82)
(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the Senate on May 11, 2017. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
Kari's Law Act of 2017
(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit businesses from manufacturing or importing for use in the United States, or selling or leasing in the United States, a multiline telephone system unless it is pre-configured to allow users to directly initiate a call to 9-1-1 (without dialing any additional digit, code, prefix, or post-fix, including any trunk-access code such as the digit "9") from any station equipped with dialing facilities.
Businesses are prohibited from installing, managing, or operating multiline telephone systems without such a direct 9-1-1 call configuration.
Businesses installing, managing, or operating such systems for use in the United States must configure the systems to provide a notification to a central location at the facility where the system is installed, or to another person or organization regardless of location, if the system is able to be so configured without an improvement to the hardware or software.
Cosponsors (5)
- Deb Fischer (R-NE)
- Brian Schatz (D-HI)
- John Cornyn (R-TX)
- John Thune (R-SD)
- Ted Cruz (R-TX)
Subjects
- Emergency communications systems
- Telephone and wireless communication
Sourced from Congress.gov (public domain).
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