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On the recordNovember 7, 2017
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of Calendar No. 256, S. 1015. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title. The bill clerk read as follows: A bill (S. 1015) to require the Federal Communications Commission to study the feasibility of designating a simple, easy-to-remember dialing code to be used for a national suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline system. There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill, which had been reported from the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, with an amendment to strike all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof the following: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``National Suicide Hotline Improvement Act of 2017''. SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. In this Act-- (1) the term ``Commission'' means the Federal Communications Commission; (2) the term ``covered dialing code'' means a simple, easy- to-remember, 3-digit dialing code; and (3) the term ``N11 dialing code'' means an abbreviated dialing code consisting of 3 digits, of which-- (A) the first digit may be any digit other than ``1'' or ``0''; and (B) each of the last 2 digits is ``1''. SEC. 3. STUDIES AND REPORTS.…
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