I 
118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6763 
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. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 13, 2023 
Mr. MOLINARO (for himself and Mr. TONKO) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To establish a multi-stakeholder advisory committee tasked 
with providing detailed recommendations to address chal-
lenges to transmitting geolocation information with calls 
to the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, and for other 
purposes. 
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 ‘‘988 Lifeline Location 
Improvement Act of 2023’’. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
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(1) 911 
SYSTEM
SERVICE
PROVIDER.—The 
term ‘‘911 system service provider’’ has the meaning 
given the term ‘‘covered 911 service provider’’ in 
section 9.19(a)(4)(i) of title 47, Code of Federal 
Regulations, or any successor regulation. 
(2) 
APPROPRIATE
COMMITTEES
OF
CON-
GRESS.—The term ‘‘appropriate committees of Con-
gress’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
and Transportation of the Senate; 
(B) the Committee on Health, Education, 
Labor, and Pensions of the Senate; and 
(C) the Committee on Energy and Com-
merce of the House of Representatives. 
(3) 
COMMITTEE.—The 
term 
‘‘committee’’ 
means the advisory committee established under sec-
tion 3. 
(4) COMMUNITY BASED MENTAL HEALTH ORGA-
NIZATION.—The term ‘‘community based mental 
health organization’’ means an organization that 
serves individuals with mental health conditions and 
the families of those individuals in a community set-
ting. 
(5) 
DISPATCHABLE
LOCATION.—The 
term 
‘‘dispatchable location’’ has the meaning given that 
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term in section 9.3 of title 47, Code of Federal Reg-
ulations, or any successor regulation. 
(6) HANDSET
MANUFACTURER.—The term 
‘‘handset manufacturer’’ means a manufacturer of 
cellular phones. 
(7) LOCAL CRISIS CENTER.—The term ‘‘local 
crisis center’’ means a call center intended to receive 
calls from the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline and 
the Veterans Crisis Line. 
(8) LOCAL
GOVERNMENT.—The term ‘‘local 
government’’ means the government of any political 
subdivision of a State. 
(9) LOW POPULATION STATE.—The term ‘‘low 
population State’’ means a State that has no urban-
ized areas with a population greater than 250,000, 
as reported in the decennial census. 
(10) MENTAL
HEALTH
SERVICES
ORGANIZA-
TION.—The term ‘‘mental health services organiza-
tion’’ means an organization or association that rep-
resents providers of mental health crisis services or 
crisis respite services. 
(11) PUBLIC SAFETY ANSWERING POINT.—The 
term ‘‘public safety answering point’’ has the mean-
ing given that term in section 9.3 of title 47, Code 
of Federal Regulations, or any successor regulation. 
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