Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 379.
This bill creates a 15-person advisory committee to study how to send a caller's location to crisis counselors when someone calls the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. The committee would spend up to a year figuring out the technical, privacy, and cost challenges, then give Congress a report with recommendations. No new rules or requirements take effect from this bill alone; it only sets up a group to study the problem and suggest next steps.
When someone calls 988 during a mental health crisis, counselors often have no idea where that person is , unlike 911, which automatically shares location. This bill starts the process of closing that gap, which could eventually help dispatchers send emergency help faster to people in danger.