Bill Text: GA HB1321 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Emergency Telephone System Fund; additional use for moneys; provide
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2010-06-04 - Veto V14 [HB1321 Detail]
Download: Georgia-2009-HB1321-Comm_Sub.html
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The
Senate Finance Committee offered the following substitute to HB
1321:
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Part 4 of Article 2 of Chapter 5 of Title 46 of the Official Code of
Georgia Annotated, the "Georgia Emergency Telephone Number 9-1-1 Service Act of
1977," so as to provide an additional use for Emergency Telephone System Fund
moneys; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for
other purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Part
4 of Article 2 of Chapter 5 of Title 46 of the Official Code of Georgia
Annotated, the "Georgia Emergency Telephone Number 9-1-1 Service Act of 1977,"
is amended by revising subsection (f) of Code Section 46-5-134, relating to
the establishment of the Emergency Telephone System Fund, as
follows:
"(f)
In addition to cost recovery as provided in subsection (e) of this Code section,
money from the Emergency Telephone System Fund shall be used only to pay
for:
(1)
The lease, purchase, or maintenance of emergency telephone equipment, including
necessary computer hardware, software, and data base provisioning; addressing;
and nonrecurring costs of establishing a 9-1-1 system;
(2)
The rates associated with the service supplier's 9-1-1 service and other service
supplier's recurring charges;
(3)
The actual cost of salaries, including benefits, of employees hired by the local
government solely for the operation and maintenance of the emergency 9-1-1
system and the actual cost of training such of those employees who work as
dispatchers or who work as directors as that term is defined in Code Section
46-5-138.2;
(4)
Office supplies of the public safety answering points used directly in providing
emergency 9-1-1 system services;
(5)
The cost of leasing or purchasing a building used as a public safety answering
point. Moneys from the fund
cannot
shall
not be used for the construction or lease
of an emergency 9-1-1 system building until the local government has completed
its street addressing plan;
(6)
The lease, purchase, or maintenance of computer hardware and software used at a
public safety answering point, including computer-assisted dispatch
systems;
(7)
Supplies directly related to providing emergency 9-1-1 system services,
including the cost of printing emergency 9-1-1 system public education
materials;
and
(8)
The lease, purchase, or maintenance of logging recorders used at a public safety
answering point to record telephone and radio
traffic;
and
(9)
The lease, purchase, or maintenance of equipment and associated hardware and
software that furthers the legislative intent of providing the highest level of
emergency response service on a local, regional, and state-wide basis, including
equipment and associated hardware and software that supports the use of public
safety wireless voice and data communication systems and the operable and
interoperable communication capabilities of 9-1-1 service, but only
if:
(A)
The local government's 9-1-1 system provides enhanced 9-1-1
service;
(B)
The revenues from 9-1-1 charges or wireless enhanced 9-1-1 charges in the local
government's Emergency Telephone System Fund at the end of any fiscal year are
projected to exceed the cost of providing enhanced 9-1-1 services as authorized
in paragraphs (1) through (8) of this subsection; and
(C)
The cost of providing services referred to in subparagraph (B) of this paragraph
includes a reserve amount equal to at least 10 percent of the previous year's
expenditures."
SECTION
2.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.
