Bill Text: CA SB828 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Public safety communication.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-4)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-09-04 - Read third time. Amended. (Page 3037.) Re-referred to Com. On G.O. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. [SB828 Detail]

Download: California-2009-SB828-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 828	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Governmental Organization (Senators
Wright (Chair), Benoit, Calderon, Denham, Florez, Harman, Negrete
McLeod, Oropeza, Padilla, Romero, Wiggins, Wyland, and Yee)

                        MARCH 19, 2009

   An act to amend Section 8592.1 of the Government Code, relating to
public safety communication.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 828, as introduced, Committee on Governmental Organization.
Public safety communication.
   Existing law, the Public Safety Communication Act of 2002, defines
terms for its purposes and establishes the Public Safety Radio
Strategic Planning Committee.
   This bill would revise and add to these definitions and rename the
committee as the Public Safety Emergency Communications Strategic
Planning Committee.
   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 8592.1 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   8592.1.  For purposes of this article, the following terms have
the following meanings:
   (a) "Backward compatibility" means that the equipment is able to
function with older, existing equipment. 
   (b) "California Statewide Interoperability Executive Committee"
means the committee established under the Communications and
Technology Development Branch of the California Emergency Management
Agency.  
   (b) 
    (c)    "Committee" means the Public Safety
 Radio   Emergency Communications 
Strategic Planning Committee  , which was 
established in December 1994 in recognition of the need to improve
existing public radio systems and  to  develop
interoperability among public safety departments and between state
public safety departments and local or federal entities, and 
which   that  consists of representatives of the
following state entities:
   (1) The  Office of Emergency Services, who  
California Emergency Management Agency, whose representative 
shall serve as chairperson.
   (2) The Department of the California Highway Patrol.
   (3) The Department of Transportation.
   (4) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
   (5) The Department of Parks and Recreation.
   (6) The Department of Fish and Game.
   (7) The Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
   (8) The Department of Justice.
   (9) The Department of Water Resources.
   (10) The State Department of Public Health.
   (11) The Emergency Medical Services Authority.
   (12) The Department of General Services. 
   (13) The Office of Homeland Security.  
   (14) 
    (13)    The Military Department. 
   (15) 
    (14)    The Department of Finance. 
   (c) 
    (d)    "First response agencies" means public
agencies that, in the early states of an incident, are responsible
for, among other things, the protection and preservation of life,
property, evidence, and the environment, including, but not limited
to, state fire agencies, state and local emergency medical services
agencies, local sheriffs' departments, municipal police departments,
county and city fire departments, and police and fire protection
districts. 
   (d) 
    (e)    "Nonproprietary equipment or systems"
means equipment or systems that are able to function with another
manufacturer's equipment or system regardless of type or design.

   (e)
    (f)    "Open architecture" means a system that
can accommodate equipment from various vendors because it is not a
proprietary system. 
   (f) 
    (g)   "Public safety radio subscriber" means
the ultimate end user. Subscribers include individuals or
organizations, including, for example, local police departments, fire
departments, and other operators of a public safety radio system.
Typical subscriber equipment includes end instruments, including
mobile radios, hand-held radios, mobile repeaters, fixed repeaters,
transmitters, or receivers that are interconnected to utilize
assigned public safety communications frequencies. 
   (g) 
    (h)    "Public safety spectrum" means the
spectrum allocated by the Federal Communications Commission for
operation of interoperable and general use radio communication
systems for public safety purposes  within the state
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