An Act To Require Telecommunications Companies To Divulge Location Information to Law Enforcement When Necessary To Respond to a 9-1-1 Call or Locate a Person in Danger
Maine Legislature, Session 130, LD 1581
Committee Amendment CA_A_S443 (Senate)

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT" t} "to S.P. 492, L.D. 1581, "An Act To Require 
Telecommunications Companies To Divulge Location Information to Law Enforcement 
When Necessary To Respond to a 9-1-1 Call or Locate a Person in Danger" 
Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following: 
'An Act Regarding Access to Location Information' 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and inserting the 
following: 
'Sec. 1. 16 l\1RSA §650, sub-§4, as amended by PL 2019, c. 489, §16, is further 
amended to read: 
4. Danger of death or serious physical injury. If the government entity reasonably 
believes that an emergency involving imminent danger of death or serious physical injury 
to a person requires the disclosure, without delay, of location information concerning a 
specific person and that a warrant cannot be obtained in time to prevent the identified 
danger, and the possessor of the loeation infoffilation, in good faith, belie:ves that an 
eraergeney in¥olving danger of death or serious physieal i.H.jury to a person reqakes the 
diselosurs without delay. 
Within a reasonable period of time after seeking disclosure pursuant to this subsection, the 
government entity seeking the location information shall file with the appropriate court a 
written statement setting forth the facts giving rise to the emergency and the facts as to why 
the person whose location information was sought is believed to be important in addressing 
the emergency. 
Sec. 2. 16 l\1RSA §650, as amended by PL 2019, c. 489, §16, is further amended by 
enacting at the end a new paragraph to read: 
An electronic communication service, remote computing service· or location 
information service that possesses the location information shall provide the location 
information requested by a government entity under this section.' 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT" Jl-- "to S.P. 492, L.D. 1581 LS- Yl,J)) 
Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or section 
number to read consecutively. 
SUMMARY 
This amendment replaces the bill to avoid conflicting with current law governing 
search warrant exceptions for obtaining location information associated with electronic 
devices from electronic communication services. 
This amendment removes the requirement that an electronic communication service 
that possesses location information associated with an electronic device agree in good faith 
that a situation involving danger of death or serious physical injury exists before sharing 
the location information. 
This amendment provides that electronic communication services, remote computing 
services and location information services are required to provide the location information 
that is requested by a government entity in any of the circumstances in which a warrant is 
not required as currently provided in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 16, section 650. 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT