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S. 290119th CongressPublic Lands and Natural Resources
Making National Parks Safer Act
Sponsored by Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) · 3 active : 1 Republican, 1 Democrat, 1 Independent
Latest action: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 469.
Where it standsBefore the Senate8 senators score as swing votes
Hasn’t passed either chamber
- Senate: next
- House: not yet
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govMaking 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.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources · SenateReported by · Markup by · Referred to
- National Parks · SenateHearings by (subcommittee)
Subjects
- Congressional oversight
- Emergency communications systems
- Government studies and investigations
- Parks, recreation areas, trails
How the Senate breaks down
- 8Swing 70–100
- 60Middle 30–70
- 32Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v2, directional: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.
Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
3 activeShow all 3 cosponsors
- Angus S. King Jr. (I-ME)
- Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
- John W. Hickenlooper (D-CO)
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
