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Code · BILL · 114th Congress · H.R. 4167 (Introduced in House) — To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require multi-line telephone systems to have a default configuration that... · Sec. 2

Sec. 2. Default configuration of multi-line telephone systems for direct dialing of 9–1–1

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Title VII of the Communications Act of 1934 ( 47 U.S.C. 601 et seq. ) is amended by adding at the end the following: A person engaged in the business of manufacturing, importing, selling, leasing, or installing multi-line telephone systems may not manufacture or import for use in the United States, sell or lease or offer to sell or lease in the United States, or install in the United States a multi-line telephone system, unless the default configuration of such system is such that a user may directly initiate a call to 9–1–1 from any station equipped with dialing facilities, without dialing any additional digit, code, prefix, or post-fix, including any trunk-access code such as the digit 9 , regardless of whether the user is required to dial such a digit, code, prefix, or post-fix for other calls.
A person engaged in the business of installing multi-line telephone systems, in installing such a system, shall configure the system to provide a notification to a central location at the facility where the system is installed when a person at the facility initiates a call to 9–1–1 using the system, if the system is able to be configured to provide the notification without an improvement to the hardware of the system. This section shall be enforced under title V, except that section 501 applies only to the extent that such section provides for the punishment of a fine.
The term multi-line telephone system has the meaning given such term in section 6502 of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 ( 47 U.S.C. 1471 ). . The amendment made by subsection
(a)shall apply with respect to a multi-line telephone system that is manufactured, imported, offered for first sale or lease, first sold or leased, or installed after the date that is 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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