Bill Text: NJ A2603 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires hotels to upgrade phone systems to allow guests to dial 9-1-1 without first dialing any other digit.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-12-04 - Reported out of Assembly Comm. with Amendments, 2nd Reading [A2603 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2016-A2603-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 2603

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

217th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 8, 2016

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  REED GUSCIORA

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

Assemblywoman  NANCY J. PINKIN

District 18 (Middlesex)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires hotels to upgrade phone systems to allow guests to dial 9-1-1 without first dialing any other digit.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Homeland Security and State Preparedness Committee on December 4, 2017, with amendments.

  

An Act concerning access to 9-1-1 services and supplementing Title 29 of the Revised Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    Each owner of a hotel as defined under R.S.29:2-1 shall, within 90 days of the effective date of this act, convert the hotel's telephone system to a dial tone first system, which shall allow a person making a call from a hotel telephone to dial the digits "9-1-1," without first having to dial any other digit in order to reach an outside telephone line. Instructions on how to access 9-1-1 shall be prominently displayed on each telephone provided in a hotel guest room.

     ¹The provisions of this section shall be operable to the extent that the provisions are not inconsistent with or preempted by federal law.¹

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.