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 113 STAT. 1288 PUBLIC LAW 106-81—OCT. 26, 1999 shall be construed to authorize or require the Commission to impose obligations or costs on any person. 47 USC 615a. SEC. 4. PARITY OF PROTECTION FOR PROVISION OR USE OF WIRE- LESS SERVICE. (a) PROVIDER PARITY.—^A wireless carrier, and its officers, directors, employees, vendors, and agents, shall have immunity or other protection from liability in a State of a scope and extent that IS not less than the scope and extent of immunity or other protection from liability that any local exchange company, and its officers, directors, employees, vendors, or agents, have under Federal and State law (whether through statute, judicial decision, tariffs filed by such local exchange company, or otherwise) applicable in such State, including in connection with an act or omission involving the release to a PSAP, emergency medical service provider or emergency dispatch provider, public safety, fire service or law enforcement official, or hospital emergency or trauma care facility of subscriber information related to emergency calls or emergency services. (b) USER PARITY.—^A person using wireless 9-1-1 service shall have immimity or other protection from liability of a scope and extent that is not less than the scope and extent of immunity or other protection from liability under applicable law in similar circumstances of a person using 9-1 -1 service that is not wireless. (c) PSAP PARITY.—In matters related to wireless 9-1 -1 communications, a PSAP, and its employees, vendors, agents, and authorizing government entity (if any) shall have immiuiity or other protection from liability of a scope and extent that is not less than the scope and extent of immunity or other protection from liability under applicable law accorded to such PSAP, employees, vendors, agents, and authorizing government entity, respectively, in matters related to 9-1-1 communications that Eu-e not wireless. (d) BASIS FOR ENACTMENT.—This section is enacted as an exercise of the enforcement power of the Congress under section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution and the power of the Congress to regulate commerce with foreign nations, among the several States, and with Indian tribes. SEC. 5. AUTHORITY TO PROVIDE CUSTOMER INFORMATION. Section 222 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 222) is amended— (1) in subsection (d)— (A) by striking "or" at the end of paragraph (2); (B) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (3) and inserting a semicolon and "and"; and (C) by adding at the end the following: "(4) to provide call location information concerning the user of a commercial mobile service (as such term is defined in section 332(d))— "(A) to a public safety answering point, emergency medical service provider or emergency dispatch provider, public safety, fire service, or law enforcement official, or hospital emergency or traimia care facility, in order to respond to the user's call for emergency services; "(B) to inform the user's legal guardian or members of the user's immediate family of the user's location in an emergency situation that involves the risk of death or serious physical harm; or

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