I 
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4889 
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require providers of a covered 
service to provide call location information concerning the telecommuni-
cations device of a user of such service to an investigative or law enforce-
ment officer in an emergency situation involving risk of death or serious 
physical injury or in order to respond to the user’s call for emergency 
services. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 23, 2016 
Mr. YODER (for himself, Ms. JENKINS of Kansas, Mr. CLEAVER, and Mr. 
POMPEO) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require pro-
viders of a covered service to provide call location infor-
mation concerning the telecommunications device of a 
user of such service to an investigative or law enforce-
ment officer in an emergency situation involving risk 
of death or serious physical injury or in order to respond 
to the user’s call for emergency services. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Kelsey Smith Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. REQUIRED EMERGENCY DISCLOSURE OF CALL LO-
CATION INFORMATION TO LAW ENFORCE-
MENT. 
Section 222 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 
U.S.C. 222) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (d)— 
(A) 
by 
redesignating 
paragraphs 
(1) 
through (4) as subparagraphs (A) through (D), 
respectively; 
(B) by striking ‘‘nothing in this section’’ 
and inserting the following: 
‘‘(1) PERMITTED
DISCLOSURES.—Nothing in 
this section’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2) REQUIRED
EMERGENCY
DISCLOSURE
OF 
CALL LOCATION INFORMATION TO LAW ENFORCE-
MENT.—Notwithstanding subsections (a), (b), and 
(c), at the request of an investigative or law enforce-
ment officer, a provider of a covered service shall 
provide to such officer the call location information, 
or the best available location information, of a tele-
communications device that is— 
‘‘(A) used to place a 9–1–1 call requesting 
emergency assistance; or 
‘‘(B) reasonably believed to be in the pos-
session of an individual that the law enforce-
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ment officer reasonably believes is in an emer-
gency situation that involves the risk of death 
or serious physical harm to the individual.’’; 
(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 de-
fined in section 332); or 
‘‘(B) an IP-enabled voice service (as de-
fined in section 7 of the Wireless Communica-
tions and Public Safety Act of 1999 (47 U.S.C. 
615b)). 
‘‘(9) INVESTIGATIVE
OR
LAW
ENFORCEMENT 
OFFICER.—The term ‘investigative or law enforce-
ment officer’ has the meaning given such term in 
section 2510 of title 18, United States Code.’’. 
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