Bill Text: NJ S1950 | 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 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-12-04 - Reported out of Assembly Committee, 2nd Reading [S1950 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2016-S1950-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

SENATE, No. 1950

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

217th LEGISLATURE

INTRODUCED MARCH 14, 2016

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  SHIRLEY K. TURNER

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

 

 

 

 

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 amended by the Senate on June 22, 2017.

 

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.