Senate Bill 290
119th Congress(2025-2026)
Making National Parks Safer Act
Introduced
Introduced in Senate on Jan 29, 2025
Origin Chamber
Senate
Type
Bill
Bill
The primary form of legislative measure used to propose law. Depending on the chamber of origin, bills begin with a designation of either H.R. or S. Joint resolution is another form of legislative measure used to propose law.
Bill Number
290
Congress
119
Policy Area
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Primary focus of measure is natural areas (including wilderness); lands under government jurisdiction; land use practices and policies; parks, monuments, and historic sites; fisheries and marine resources; mining and minerals. Measures concerning energy supplies and production may fall under Energy policy area.
No Senate votes have been held for this bill.
Summary
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.
January 29, 2025
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07/23/2026
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 469.
07/23/2026
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Lee without amendment. Without written report.
02/04/2026
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
12/09/2025
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held.
01/29/2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text: CR S481-482)
01/29/2025
Introduced in Senate
Public Record
Record Updated
Jul 24, 2026 1:33:28 PM