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(This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the Senate on February 5, 2018. 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 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.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 582 as public Law on Feb 16, 2018. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
House Jan 23, 2017
Kari’s Law Act
Passed · Two-thirds required
408 Yea 0 Nay 26 not voting
Crossed both parties No voting member broke with their own party.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
434 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 582 and vote against it. 15 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 582 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
34 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.