Bill Text: CA SB1211 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Emergency services: Next Generation 911.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-09-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 926, Statutes of 2014. [SB1211 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB1211-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1211	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 29, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Padilla

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2014

   An act to add Section 53121 to the Government Code, and to amend
Section 41030 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, relating to emergency
services.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1211, as amended, Padilla. Emergency services: Next Generation
911.
   Existing law requires the Office of Emergency Services to
determine annually, on or before October 1, a surcharge rate that it
estimates will produce sufficient revenue to fund the current fiscal
year's 911 costs, as specified.
   This bill would require the office to develop a plan and timeline
of target dates for testing, implementing, and operating a Next
Generation 911 emergency communication system, including text to 911
service, throughout California. The bill would require the office, in
determining the surcharge rate, to additionally include costs it
expects to incur, consistent with the plan and timeline, to plan,
test, implement, and operate Next Generation 911 technology and
services, including text to 911 service. The bill would require the
office,  no later than September 1 of each year,  at
least one month before determining the surcharge rate, to prepare a
summary of the calculation of the proposed surcharge and make it
available to the Legislature and the 911 Advisory Board, and on the
office's Internet Web site.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 53121 is added to the Government Code, to read:

   53121.  (a) The Office of Emergency Services shall develop a plan
and timeline of target dates for the testing, implementation, and
operation of a Next Generation 911 emergency communication system,
including text to 911 service, throughout California.
   (b) In order to maximize efficiency and contain costs, the Next
Generation 911 emergency communication system shall incorporate,
where consistent with public safety and technologically feasible,
shared infrastructure and elements of other public safety and
emergency communications networks, including, but not limited to, all
of the following:
   (1) Public safety communications identified in the annual plan
required by subdivision (b) of Section 15277.
   (2) Local and regional public safety broadband networks authorized
by the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
(Public Law 111-5).
   (3) Public safety broadband networks authorized by the federal
Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (Public Law
112-96).
   (4) Public safety radio and communications facilities used for the
purpose of public warnings pursuant to Section 15254.
  SEC. 2.  Section 41030 of the Revenue and Taxation Code is amended
to read:
   41030.  (a) The Office of Emergency Services shall determine
annually, on or before October 1, a surcharge rate that it estimates
will produce sufficient revenue to fund the current fiscal year's 911
costs. The surcharge rate shall be determined by dividing the costs
(including incremental costs) the Office of Emergency Services
estimates for the current fiscal year of 911 plans approved pursuant
to Section 53115 of the Government Code, less the available balance
in the State Emergency Telephone Number Account in the General Fund,
by its estimate of the charges for intrastate telephone
communications services and VoIP service to which the surcharge will
apply for the period of January 1 to December 31, inclusive, of the
next succeeding calendar year, but in no event shall such surcharge
rate in any year be greater than three-quarters of 1 percent nor less
than one-half of 1 percent.
   (b) When determining the surcharge rate, the office shall include
the costs it expects to incur to plan, test, implement, and operate
Next Generation 911 technology and services, including text to 911
service, consistent with the plan and timeline required by Section
53121 of the Government Code.
   (c)  No later than September 1 of each year, at 
 At  least one month before determining the surcharge rate
pursuant to subdivision (a), the office shall prepare a summary of
the calculation of the proposed surcharge and make it available to
the Legislature and the 911 Advisory Board, and on the office's
Internet Web site.