H.R. 4167 · 114th Congress
Kari's Law Act of 2015
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Farenthold
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Olson
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Brooks
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Cuellar
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Cramer
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Newhouse
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King4 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.
- House Introduced Dec 3, 2015
- House Passed May 23, 2016
Businesses are prohibited from installing, managing, or operating multi-line telephone systems without such a direct 9-1-1 call configuration.
What it does: CRS summary · Passed House amended · May 23, 2016
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.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: Kari's Law Act of 2016
Latest action (May 24, 2016): Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications · Origin: House · Introduced: Dec 3, 2015
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
- House Introduced Dec 3, 2015
- House Passed May 23, 2016
No recorded floor vote found.