To Inform Families First Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6051 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6051

To promote the voluntary inclusion of emergency contact information in 
   State driver's license and identification systems and to provide 
  support to States for implementation of such systems, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 17, 2025

 Mr. Buchanan introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
To promote the voluntary inclusion of emergency contact information in 
   State driver's license and identification systems and to provide 
  support to States for implementation of such systems, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``To Inform Families First Act of 
2025''.

SEC. 2. NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION GRANT PROGRAM 
              FOR EMERGENCY CONTACT INFORMATION SYSTEM.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Transportation, acting through 
the Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety 
Administration, shall establish a program (in this section referred to 
as ``the program'') to provide assistance to States to develop and 
implement systems to collect emergency contact information for 
inclusion in the driver's license and identification records of such 
States.
    (b) Forms of Assistance.--Assistance provided under the program 
section may be in the form of a grant or technical assistance.
    (c) Requirements.--As a condition of receiving assistance under the 
program, a State shall use such assistance to develop an emergency 
contact information system described in subsection (a) and such State 
shall--
            (1) ensure that the provision of emergency contact 
        information by an individual under such system is voluntary;
            (2) include robust data security protections in such 
        system;
            (3) restrict access to information provided under such 
        system to authorized emergency personnel for use only during an 
        emergency; and
            (4) ensure that there is no requirement to display such 
        emergency contact information on a physical driver's license or 
        identification card.
    (d) Report.--Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of 
this Act, the Secretary shall submit to Congress an annual report on 
the implementation of this section and include in such report 
information on any technical assistance provided under this section.
    (e) State Defined.--In this section, the term ``State'' means any 
of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto 
Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the 
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
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