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HB2870: Cellular telephones; encouraged to program with ICE numbers.
Chief Patron
Sen.
Don McEachin (D-9)
Don McEachin
(D-9)
Richmond, VA
Served: 2008–
Progress
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Status
Bill is Dead
Summary
Programming cell phones with ICE numbers. Requires providers of commercial mobile telecommunications service to implement a program, in accordance with criteria developed by the Wireless E-911 Services Board, of encouraging its subscribers to program one or more ICE numbers into their mobile telephones. An ICE number is a telephone number that is programmed into a mobile telephone, and labeled ICE, which when called by a firefighter, paramedic, emergency medical technician, rescue worker, or ambulance when the subscriber is nonresponsive or impaired, will connect to the person who the subscriber desires to be contacted in case of an emergency.
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