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This bill, the Safe Connections Act of 2022, aims to prevent and respond to the misuse of communications services that facilitates domestic violence and other crimes. The key provisions include: 1. Requiring mobile service providers to separate a survivor's line from a shared mobile service contract within 2 business days of receiving a completed request, without imposing additional fees or penalties. 2. Establishing a process for survivors to submit line separation requests and providing confidentiality and security protections for their personal information. 3. Directing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to adopt rules to implement the line separation provisions, and to designate a program (either the Lifeline program or the Affordable Connectivity Program) to provide emergency communications support to eligible survivors. 4. Authorizing the FCC to consider rules that would require mobile and wireline voice service providers to omit records of calls or text messages to designated domestic violence hotlines from consumer-facing call logs, while maintaining internal records for law enforcement purposes. The bill aims to help survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, sex trafficking, and related crimes by removing barriers they may face in accessing and maintaining reliable communications services.

Transportation and Infrastructure

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/120/all-info