Congress 114 - HR 4167 - Kari's Law Act of 2016

Sponsor

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX)

Cosponsors

Topics

Emergency communications systems Science, Technology, Communications Telephone and wireless communication

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Summary

Kari's Law Act of 2016

(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 multi-line 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 multi-line 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.

Actions

May 24, 2016

Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
May 23, 2016

The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
May 23, 2016

Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
May 23, 2016

On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2888)
May 23, 2016

Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H2888)
May 23, 2016

Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H2930-2931)
May 23, 2016

At the conclusion of debate, the chair put the question on the motion to suspend the rules. Mr. Sarbanes objected to the vote on the grounds that a quorum was not present. Further proceedings on the motion were postponed. The point of no quorum was considered as withdrawn.
May 23, 2016

DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4167.
May 23, 2016

Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2888-2889)
May 23, 2016

Mr. Walden moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
May 23, 2016

Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 449.
May 23, 2016

Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 114-579.
Apr 28, 2016

Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Apr 28, 2016

Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Apr 27, 2016

Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Apr 26, 2016

Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Apr 25, 2016

Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Apr 19, 2016

Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
Apr 19, 2016

Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Apr 18, 2016

Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Dec 4, 2015

Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
Dec 3, 2015

Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Dec 3, 2015

Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H9006-9009)
Dec 3, 2015

Introduced in House

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