House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Kelsey Smith Act
Official title: To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require providers of a covered service to provide location information concerning the telecommunications device of a user of such service to an investigative or law enforcement officer or an employee or other agent of a public safety answering point in an emergency situation involving risk of death or serious physical harm or in order to respond to the user's call for emergency services.
Sponsor: Rep. Derek Schmidt R-KSWhere it went
- IntroducedJun 6, 2025
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- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
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- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 6, 2025 — Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3825.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. SCHMIDT, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 97, June 6, 2025, Page H2535):clause 3 of section 8 of article I of the Constitution clause 18 of section 8 of article I of the ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 6, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 110 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3825, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/3825
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 1, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of July 1, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
3 cosponsors — 2 Republicans, 1 Democrat
1 of 3 cosponsors (33%) are from the other party.
Sharice Davids (D-KS), Ron Estes (R-KS), Tracey Mann (R-KS).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Derek Schmidt.
- H.R. 8352 (119th) Criminal History Access Act of 2026
- H.R. 4465 (119th) To amend chapters 4, 10, and 131 of title 5, United States Code, as necessary to keep those chapters current and to correct related…
- H.R. 8065 (119th) Restoring Executive Branch Authorities to Oversee Offices of the United States Attorneys Act of 2026
- H.R. 9298 (119th) Stopping Harmful and Outrageous Torts Act
- H.R. 5364 (119th) STOP FRAUD in Medicaid Act
- H.R. 7752 (119th) Kelsey Smith Act
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 13, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.