S. 123 · 115th Congress
Kari's Law Act of 2017
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Passed the Senate without a recorded vote, then expired. It passed by voice vote or unanimous consent, which don't record how each member voted, but didn't become law before the 115th Congress ended.
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KlobucharSponsor5 cosponsors · 1 D, 4 R
5 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.
- Senate Introduced Jan 12, 2017
- Senate Passed Aug 3, 2017
What it does: CRS summary · Passed Senate without amendment · Aug 3, 2017
(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.
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 2017
Latest action (Aug 4, 2017): Held at the desk.
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications · Origin: Senate · Introduced: Jan 12, 2017
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
- Senate Introduced Jan 12, 2017
- Senate Passed Aug 3, 2017
No recorded floor vote found.