To Inform Families First Act of 2025

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.

Assistance provided under the program section may be in the form of a grant or technical assistance.

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.

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.

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.