SB3482: 988 Lifeline Location Improvement Act of 2023
- 1Introduced (current step)
- 2Passed One Chamber
- 3Passed Both Chambers
- 4Became Law
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Summary
A bill to establish a multi-stakeholder advisory committee tasked with providing detailed recommendations to address challenges to transmitting geolocation information with calls to the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, and for other purposes.
Plain-language summary
This bill would create an advisory made up of different stakeholders to study and recommend solutions for a specific problem: helping the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline receive location information when people call. The 988 lifeline is a phone service that provides crisis support and suicide prevention help. Currently, callers' locations often don't transmit to the lifeline, making it harder for counselors to help. The committee would investigate the technical and other barriers blocking this location data and suggest fixes. The bill is currently in the introduction stage and has not yet been assigned to a committee for debate.
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SB3482: 988 Lifeline Location Improvement Act of 2023
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Sponsors
John Barrasso
Primary SponsorCo-sponsors (11)
Ben Lujan
Shelley Capito
Margaret Hassan
Marsha Blackburn
John Hickenlooper