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S 123 115th Congress Senate Science, Technology, Communications Emergency communications systems Telephone and wireless communication

Kari's Law Act of 2017

Introduced: January 12, 2017 Introduced by: Klobuchar, Amy Democratic · Minnesota See on congress.gov
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Passed House
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Became law
Aug 4, 2017
Held at the desk.
Aug 4, 2017
Received in the House.
Aug 4, 2017
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Aug 3, 2017
Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4818-4819; text: CR S4818-4819)
Aug 3, 2017
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S4818-4819; text: CR S4818-4819)
Jul 10, 2017
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 164.
Jul 10, 2017
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Thune without amendment. With written report No. 115-124.
Jan 24, 2017
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Jan 12, 2017
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Jan 12, 2017
Introduced in Senate
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(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.

What's happening now August 4, 2017

Held at the desk.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 582 Related bill Kari's Law Act of 2017
 Bill text 3 versions

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 5
All 5 Democratic 1 Republican 4
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Cornyn, John
Texas · Jan 12, 2017
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Cruz, Ted
Texas · Jan 12, 2017
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Fischer, Deb
Nebraska · Jan 12, 2017
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Schatz, Brian
Hawaii · Jan 12, 2017
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Thune, John
South Dakota · Jan 12, 2017
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 123: Kari's Law Act of 2017. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-123/
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"S. 123: Kari's Law Act of 2017." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-123/.
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S. 123, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-123/.
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