US Congress House Bill 582 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 22-7-1)
Status: Passed on February 16 2018 - 100% progression
Action: 2018-02-16 - Became Public Law No: 115-127. (TXT | PDF)
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

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 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 2017

Rep. Louie Gohmert [R-TX]	Rep. Randy Weber [R-TX]	Rep. Kevin Brady [R-TX]	Rep. Steve King [R-IA]
Rep. Blake Farenthold [R-TX]	Rep. Michael McCaul [R-TX]	Rep. John Culberson [R-TX]	Rep. Ted Yoho [R-FL]
Sen. Kevin Cramer [R-ND]	Rep. John Shimkus [R-IL]	Rep. Diane Black [R-TN]	Rep. Pete Sessions [R-TX]
Rep. Trent Franks [R-AZ]	Rep. Robert Aderholt [R-AL]	Rep. Michael Burgess [R-TX]	Rep. Henry Cuellar [D-TX]
Rep. Beto O'Rourke [D-TX]	Rep. Robert Pittenger [R-NC]	Sen. Kyrsten Sinema [I-AZ]	Rep. Gregory Meeks [D-NY]
Rep. Brenda Lawrence [D-MI]	Rep. Roger Williams [R-TX]	Rep. Al Green [D-TX]	Rep. Kevin Yoder [R-KS]
Rep. Pete Olson [R-TX]	Rep. Mo Brooks [R-AL]	Rep. Donald McEachin [D-VA]	Rep. Joe Barton [R-TX]
Rep. Tom O'Halleran [D-AZ]	Rep. Tom Emmer [R-MN]

2017-01-23 - House - On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill RC# 61 (Y: 408 N: 0 NV: 26 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-16	Senate	Became Public Law No: 115-127. (TXT | PDF)
2018-02-16	Senate	Signed by President.
2018-02-09	Senate	Presented to President.
2018-02-09	Senate	Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
2018-02-09	Senate	On motion that the House suspend the rules and agree to the Senate amendment Agreed to by voice vote. (text of Senate amendment: CR 2/8/2018 H992)
2018-02-08	Senate	At the conclusion of debate, the chair put the question on the motion to suspend the rules. Mr. Lance 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.
2018-02-08	Senate	DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on the Senate amendment to H.R. 582.
2018-02-08	Senate	Mr. Lance moved that the House suspend the rules and agree to the Senate amendment. (consideration: CR H992-994)
2018-02-08	Senate	Message on Senate action sent to the House.
2018-02-05	Senate	Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
2018-02-05	Senate	S.Amdt.1921 Amendment SA 1921 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
2018-02-05	Senate	S.Amdt.1921 Amendment SA 1921 proposed by Senator McConnell for Senator Klobuchar. (consideration: CR S615; text: CR S615) To modify the effective date.
2018-02-05	Senate	Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S615; text: CR S615)
2018-02-05	Senate	Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation discharged by Unanimous Consent.
2017-01-24	Senate	Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
2017-01-23	House	Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
2017-01-23	House	On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 408 - 0 (Roll no. 61). (text: CR H588)
2017-01-23	House	Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H592)
2017-01-23	House	At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
2017-01-23	House	DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 582.
2017-01-23	House	Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H588-590)
2017-01-23	House	Mr. Lance moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
2017-01-17	House	Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
2017-01-17	House	Introduced in House

SB123 (Related) 2017-08-04 - Held at the desk.
HB4986 (Related) 2018-03-07 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/582/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr582/BILLS-115hr582ih.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr582/BILLS-115hr582eh.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr582/BILLS-115hr582eas.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr582/BILLS-115hr582enr.pdf
Roll Call	https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/201761