S 2553 114th Congress Senate Science, Technology, Communications Emergency communications systems Telephone and wireless communication

Kari's Law Act of 2016

Introduced: February 11, 2016 Introduced by: Klobuchar, Amy Democratic · Minnesota See on congress.gov

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Feb 11, 2016

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

Feb 11, 2016

Introduced in Senate

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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.

What's happening now February 11, 2016

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

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