H.R. 3825

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3825 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 3825

To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require providers of a 
covered service to provide location information concerning the 
telecommunications device of a user of such service to an investigative 
or law enforcement officer or an employee or other agent of a public 
safety answering point in an emergency situation involving risk of 
death or serious physical harm or in order to respond to the user's 
call for emergency services.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

June 6, 2025

Mr. Schmidt (for himself, Ms. Davids of Kansas, Mr. Estes, and Mr. 
Mann) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 
the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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A BILL

To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require providers of a 
covered service to provide location information concerning the 
telecommunications device of a user of such service to an investigative 
or law enforcement officer or an employee or other agent of a public 
safety answering point in an emergency situation involving risk of 
death or serious physical harm or in order to respond to the user's 
call for emergency services.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ``Kelsey Smith Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIRED EMERGENCY DISCLOSURE OF LOCATION INFORMATION TO LAW 
ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY ANSWERING POINT.

Section 222 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 222) is 
amended--
(1) in subsection (d)--
(A) in paragraph (4), by redesignating 
subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) as clauses (i), (ii), 
and (iii), respectively, and adjusting the margins 
accordingly;
(B) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (4) as 
subparagraphs (A) through (D), respectively, and 
adjusting the margins accordingly;
(C) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), as so 
redesignated, by striking ``Nothing in this section'' 
and inserting the following:
``(1) Permitted disclosures.--Nothing in this section''; 
and
(D) by adding at the end the following:
``(2) Required emergency disclosure of location information 
to law enforcement or public safety answering point.--
``(A) Location information requests.--
Notwithstanding subsections (a), (b), and (c), at the 
request of an investigative or law enforcement officer 
or an employee or other agent of a public safety 
answering point acting on behalf of such an officer, 
who is acting in the course of the official duties of 
the officer or agent, a provider of a covered service 
shall provide to the officer or agent the available 
location information of a telecommunications device 
without delay if the officer or agent asserts--
``(i) that the device was used to place a 
9-1-1 call requesting emergency assistance 
during the preceding 48-hour period; or
``(ii) reasonable suspicion that the device 
is in the possession of an individual who is 
involved in an emergency situation that 
involves the risk of death or serious physical 
harm.
``(B) Records of disclosed records.--If an 
investigative or law enforcement officer, or an 
employee or other agent of a public safety answering 
point acting on behalf of such an officer, submits a 
request for location information to a provider of a 
covered service under subparagraph (A), the 
investigative or law enforcement agency employing the 
officer shall maintain a record of the request that 
includes each of the following:
``(i) The name of the officer or agent 
making the request (and, in the case of a 
request made by an agent, the name of the 
officer on whose behalf the agent is acting).
``(ii) A description of the request that 
explains the need for disclosure of location 
information.
``(iii) A declaration that disclosure of 
location information is needed based on the 
conditions described in clause (i) or (ii) of 
subparagraph (A).
``(C) Hold harmless.--No cause of action shall lie 
in any court, nor shall any civil or administrative 
proceeding be commenced by any person or entity, 
against a provider of a covered service, or its 
directors, officers, employees, agents, or vendors, for 
providing location information or assistance in 
accordance with subparagraph (A) and any regulations 
promulgated under this paragraph.
``(D) Relationship to state law.--
``(i) In general.--Nothing in this section 
exempts a telecommunications carrier or a 
provider of a covered service from complying, 
in a circumstance described in clause (ii), 
with any applicable State law that requires the 
carrier or provider to provide location 
information of a telecommunications device to 
an investigative or law enforcement officer or 
an employee or other agent of a public safety 
answering point acting on behalf of such an 
officer in response to a request by the officer 
or agent.
``(ii) Applicability.--A circumstance 
described in this clause is a circumstance in 
which the officer or agent--
``(I) makes the request while 
acting in the course of the official 
duties of the officer or agent; and
``(II) asserts that the request is 
made for the purpose of responding to--
``(aa) a call for emergency 
services; or
``(bb) an emergency 
situation that involves the 
risk of death or serious 
physical harm.'';
(2) in subsection (f)(1), by striking ``subsection (d)(4)'' 
and inserting ``subsection (d)(1)(D)''; and
(3) in subsection (h), by adding at the end the following:
``(8) Covered service.--The term `covered service' means--
``(A) a commercial mobile service (as defined in 
section 332(d)); or
``(B) an IP-enabled voice service (as defined in 
section 7 of the Wireless Communications and Public 
Safety Act of 1999 (47 U.S.C. 615b)).
``(9) Investigative or law enforcement officer.--The term 
`investigative or law enforcement officer' has the meaning 
given the term `Investigative or law enforcement officer' in 
section 2510 of title 18, United States Code.''.

SEC. 3. CONFORMING AMENDMENT.

Section 2707(a) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by 
inserting after ``Except as provided in section 2703(e)'' the 
following: ``of this title and section 222(d)(2)(C) of the 
Communications Act of 1934''.
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