Making National Parks Safer Act
U.S. Congress · S290 ·
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What the bill says
Introduced 2025-01-29. Latest action: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 469.
Summary (plain-language)
Making National Parks Safer Act This bill directs the National Park Service (NPS) to develop a plan to install Next Generation 911 (NG911) systems, which are certain interoperable, digital, and secure Internet Protocol-based systems for receiving 9-1-1 calls. Specifically, the NPS must assess the implementation status and estimated costs of such NG911 systems at existing emergency communications centers in NPS units. The NPS must also develop a plan, based on the assessment, to install NG911 systems at centers.
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- Introduced in Senate — 2025-01-29 — XML
What analysts say
CBO cost estimates
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S. 290, Making National Parks Safer Act
— 2026-03-20
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on February 4, 2026
Full estimate published at cbo.gov; it will appear here once an archived or committee-report copy is available.
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Action History
| Date | Action |
|---|---|
| 2026-07-23 | Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Lee without amendment. Without written report. |
| 2026-07-23 | Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 469. |
| 2026-02-04 | Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably. |
| 2025-12-09 | Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. |
| 2025-01-29 | Introduced in Senate |
| 2025-01-29 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text: CR S481-482) |