US Congress Senate Bill 2553 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)
Status: Introduced on February 11 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-02-11 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Pending: Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Kari's Law Act of 2016 This bill amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require multi-line telephone systems to have a default configuration that allows 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 installing such systems must configure the systems to provide a notification to a central location at the facility where the system is installed when a person at the facility initiates a call to 9-1-1 using the system, provided that the system is able to be so configured without an improvement to the hardware.

Kari's Law Act of 2016

Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]	Sen. Deb Fischer [R-NE]	Sen. Brian Schatz [D-HI]	Sen. John Cornyn [R-TX]
Sen. Ted Cruz [R-TX]	Sen. John Thune [R-SD]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-11	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

HB4167 (Related) 2016-05-24 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/2553/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s2553/BILLS-114s2553is.pdf