Kari's Law Act of 2016
Latest action · Feb 11, 2016 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Progress
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- IntroducedFeb 11, 2016
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
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.
Cosponsors 5
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 11, 2016 to Sep 26, 2016, with 4 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-HI | Brian Schatz | Original | Feb 11, 2016 |
| R-NE | Deb Fischer | Original | Feb 11, 2016 |
| R-TX | John Cornyn | Original | Feb 11, 2016 |
| R-TX | Ted Cruz | Original | Feb 11, 2016 |
| R-SD | John Thune | Sep 26, 2016 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 11, 2016Introduced in Senate
- Feb 11, 2016Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Related bills 3
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 253 | Federal Communications Commission Consolidated Reporting Act of 2015 | Related bill | Sep 28, 2016 |
| S 2644 | FCC Reauthorization Act of 2016 | Related bill | Sep 20, 2016 |
| HR 4167 | Kari's Law Act of 2016 | Related bill | May 24, 2016 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications.
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Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 11, 2016Introduced in Senate
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