US Congress House Bill 4167 (Prior Session Legislation)

---

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 20-5)
Status: Engrossed on May 24 2016 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-05-24 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Pending: Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]

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.

Kari's Law Act of 2016

Rep. Louie Gohmert [R-TX]	Rep. Blake Farenthold [R-TX]	Rep. John Duncan [R-TN]	Rep. Mike Thompson [D-CA]
Rep. John Culberson [R-TX]	Rep. Diane Black [R-TN]	Rep. Pete Olson [R-TX]	Rep. Beto O'Rourke [D-TX]
Rep. Randy Neugebauer [R-TX]	Rep. Garland Barr [R-KY]	Rep. Michael Burgess [R-TX]	Rep. Madeleine Bordallo [D-GU]
Rep. Kevin Brady [R-TX]	Rep. John Shimkus [R-IL]	Rep. Henry Cuellar [D-TX]	Rep. Mo Brooks [R-AL]
Rep. Filemon Vela [D-TX]	Rep. Scott DesJarlais [R-TN]	Sen. Kevin Cramer [R-ND]	Rep. Roger Williams [R-TX]
Rep. Dan Newhouse [R-WA]	Rep. Bradley Byrne [R-AL]	Rep. Rick Allen [R-GA]	Rep. Joseph Heck [R-NV]
Rep. Steve King [R-IA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-05-24	Senate	Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
2016-05-23	House	The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
2016-05-23	House	Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
2016-05-23	House	On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2888)
2016-05-23	House	Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H2930-2931)
2016-05-23	House	At the conclusion of debate, the chair put the question on the motion to suspend the rules. Mr. Sarbanes objected to the vote on the grounds that a quorum was not present. Further proceedings on the motion were postponed. The point of no quorum was considered as withdrawn.
2016-05-23	House	DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4167.
2016-05-23	House	Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2888-2889)
2016-05-23	House	Mr. Walden moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
2016-05-23	House	Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 449.
2016-05-23	House	Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 114-579.
2016-04-28	House	Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
2016-04-28	House	Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
2016-04-27	House	Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
2016-04-26	House	Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
2016-04-25	House	Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
2016-04-19	House	Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
2016-04-19	House	Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
2016-04-18	House	Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
2015-12-04	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
2015-12-03	House	Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
2015-12-03	House	Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H9006-9009)
2015-12-03	House	Introduced in House

SB2553 (Related) 2016-02-11 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/4167/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr4167/BILLS-114hr4167ih.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr4167/BILLS-114hr4167rh.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr4167/BILLS-114hr4167eh.pdf