Bill Text: NJ A3544 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires 9-1-1 service facilities to be equipped with system for processing requests for emergency services sent via text message.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-09-18 - Combined with A3461 (ACS) [A3544 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2014-A3544-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman UPENDRA J. CHIVUKULA
District 17 (Middlesex and Somerset)
SYNOPSIS
Requires 9-1-1 service facilities to be equipped with system for processing requests for emergency services sent via text message.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning 9-1-1 service, amending P.L.1989, c.3 and R.S.39:5-41, and supplementing Title 52 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 8 of P.L.1989, c.3 (C.52:17C-8) is amended to read as follows:
8. a. Each public safety answering point shall be capable of dispatching or forwarding requests for law enforcement, fire fighting, emergency medical services, or other emergency services to a public or private safety agency that provides the requested services.
b. Each public safety answering point shall be equipped with a system approved by the office for the processing of requests for emergency services for the physically disabled. [No] A person shall not connect to a telephone company's network any automatic alarm or other automatic alerting device which causes the number "9-1-1" to be automatically dialed and which provides a prerecorded message in order to directly access emergency services, except for devices which may be approved by the office. Devices approved by the office shall be registered with the office on forms provided by the office.
c. Each entity operating a public safety answering point shall be responsible for obtaining, operating, and maintaining enhanced 9-1-1 termination equipment. The operations and maintenance of this equipment shall be in accordance with standards set forth by the office pursuant to section 3 of [this act] P.L.1989, c.3 (C.52:17C-1 et seq.).
d. No later than the second year following enactment, each public safety answering point shall be equipped with an emergency enhanced 9-1-1 system approved by the office in a manner that is consistent with federal law for the processing of requests for emergency services sent via text message.
(cf: P.L.1989, c.3, s.8)
2. (New section) a. There is established in the Office of Emergency Telecommunications Services within the Office of Information Technology a separate special account to be known as the "Text 9-1-1 Fund" into which shall be deposited all revenue collected pursuant to subsection j. of R.S.39:5-41.
b. Monies in the "Text 9-1-1 Fund," shall be appropriated exclusively to fund systems for processing requests for emergency services sent via text message.
3. R.S.39:5-41 is amended to read as follows:
39:5-41. a. All fines, penalties, and forfeitures imposed and collected under authority of law for any violations of R.S.39:4-63 and R.S.39:4-64 shall be forwarded by the judge to whom the [same] fines, penalties, and forfeitures have been paid to the proper financial officer of a county, if the violation occurred within the jurisdiction of that county's central municipal court, established pursuant to N.J.S.2B:12-1 et seq. or the municipality wherein the violation occurred, to be used by the county or municipality to help finance litter control activities in addition to or supplementing existing litter pickup and removal activities in the municipality.
b. Except as otherwise provided by subsection a. of this section, all fines, penalties, and forfeitures imposed and collected under authority of law for any violations of the provisions of [this] Title 39 of the Revised Statutes, other than those violations in which the complaining witness is the chief administrator, a member of [his] the chief administrator's staff, a member of the State Police, a member of a county police department and force or a county park police system in a county that has established a central municipal court, an inspector of the Board of Public Utilities, or a law enforcement officer of any other State agency, shall be forwarded by the judge to whom the [same] fines, penalties, and forfeitures have been paid as follows: one-half of the total amount collected to the financial officer, as designated by the local governing body, of the respective municipalities wherein the violations occurred, to be used by the municipality for general municipal use and to defray the cost of operating the municipal court; and one-half of the total amount collected to the proper financial officer of the county wherein they were collected, to be used by the county as a fund for the construction, reconstruction, maintenance, and repair of roads and bridges, snow removal, the acquisition and purchase of rights-of-way, and the purchase, replacement and repair of equipment for use on [said] the county roads and bridges [therein]. Up to [25%] 25 percent of the money received by a municipality pursuant to this subsection, but not more than the actual amount budgeted for the municipal court, whichever is less, may be used to upgrade case processing.
All fines, penalties, and forfeitures imposed and collected under authority of law for any violations of the provisions of [this] Title 39 of the Revised Statutes, in which the complaining witness is a member of a county police department and force or a county park police system in a county that has established a central municipal court, shall be forwarded by the judge to whom the [same] fines, penalties, and forfeitures have been paid to the financial officer, designated by the governing body of the county, for all violations occurring within the jurisdiction of that court, to be used for general county use and to defray the cost of operating the central municipal court.
Whenever any county has deposited [moneys] monies collected pursuant to this section in a special trust fund in lieu of expending the [same] monies for the purposes authorized by this section, it may withdraw from [said] the special trust fund in any year an amount which is not in excess of the amount expended by the county over the immediately preceding three-year period from general county revenues for [said] those purposes. [Such moneys] The monies withdrawn from the trust fund shall be accounted for and used as are other general county revenues.
c. (Deleted by amendment, P.L.1993, c.293.)
d. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections a. and b. of this section, $1 shall be added to the amount of each fine and penalty imposed and collected through a court under authority of [any] law for any violation of the provisions of Title 39 of the Revised Statutes or any other motor vehicle or traffic violation in this State and shall be forwarded by the person to whom the [same] fines and penalties are paid to the State Treasurer. In addition, upon the forfeiture of bail, $1 of that forfeiture shall be forwarded to the State Treasurer. The State Treasurer shall annually deposit those [moneys] monies so forwarded in the "Body Armor Replacement" fund established pursuant to section 1 of P.L.1997, c.177 (C.52:17B-4.4). Beginning in the fiscal year next following the effective date of [this act] P.L.1997, c.177 (C.52:17B-4.4 et al.), the State Treasurer annually shall allocate from those moneys so forwarded an amount not to exceed $400,000 to the Department of the Treasury to be expended exclusively for the purposes of funding the operation of the "Law Enforcement Officer Crisis Intervention Services" telephone hotline established and maintained under the provisions of sections 115 and 116 of P.L.2008, c.29 (C.26:2NN-1 and C.26:2NN-2).
e. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections a. and b. of this section, $1 shall be added to the amount of each fine and penalty imposed and collected through a court under authority of [any] law for any violation of the provisions of Title 39 of the Revised Statutes or any other motor vehicle or traffic violation in this State and shall be forwarded by the person to whom the [same] fines and penalties are paid to the State Treasurer. The State Treasurer shall annually deposit those [moneys] monies so forwarded in the "New Jersey Spinal Cord Research Fund" established pursuant to section 9 of P.L.1999, c.201 (C.52:9E-9). In order to comply with the provisions of Article VIII, Section II, paragraph 5 of the State Constitution, a municipal or county agency which forwards moneys to the State Treasurer pursuant to this subsection may retain an amount equal to [2%] 2 percent of the moneys which it collects pursuant to this subsection as compensation for its administrative costs associated with implementing the provisions of this subsection.
f. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections a. and b. of this section, $1 shall be added to the amount of each fine and penalty imposed and collected through a court under authority of [any] law for any violation of the provisions of Title 39 of the Revised Statutes or any other motor vehicle or traffic violation in this State and shall be forwarded by the person to whom the [same] fines and penalties are paid to the State Treasurer. The State Treasurer shall annually deposit those [moneys] monies so forwarded in the "Autism Medical Research and Treatment Fund" established pursuant to section 1 of P.L.2003, c.144 (C.30:6D-62.2).
g. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections a. and b. of this section, $2 shall be added to the amount of each fine and penalty imposed and collected by a court under authority of [any] law for any violation of the provisions of Title 39 of the Revised Statutes or any other motor vehicle or traffic violation in this State and shall be forwarded by the person to whom the [same] fines and penalties are paid to the State Treasurer. The State Treasurer shall annually deposit those [moneys] monies so forwarded in the "New Jersey Forensic DNA Laboratory Fund" established pursuant to P.L.2003, c.183. Prior to depositing the moneys into the fund, the State Treasurer shall forward to the Administrative Office of the Courts an amount not to exceed $475,000 from moneys initially collected pursuant to this subsection to be used exclusively to establish a collection mechanism and to provide funding to update the Automated Traffic System Fund created pursuant to N.J.S.2B:12-30 to implement the provisions of this subsection.
h. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections a. and b. of this section, $1 shall be added to the amount of each fine and penalty imposed and collected under authority of [any] law for any violation of the provisions of Title 39 of the Revised Statutes or any other motor vehicle or traffic violation in this State and shall be forwarded by the person to whom the [same] fines and penalties are paid to the State Treasurer. The State Treasurer shall annually deposit those [moneys] monies so forwarded in the "New Jersey Brain Injury Research Fund" established pursuant to section 9 of P.L.2003, c.200 (C.52:9EE-9). The Administrative Office of the Courts may retain an amount equal to $475,000 from the moneys which it initially collects pursuant to this subsection, prior to depositing any moneys in the "New Jersey Brain Injury Research Fund," in order to meet the expenses associated with utilizing the Automated Traffic System Fund created pursuant to N.J.S.2B:12-30 to implement the provisions of this subsection and serve other statutory purposes.
i. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections a. and b. of this section, all fines and penalties imposed and collected under authority of law for any violation related to the unlawful operation or the sale of a vehicle under section 1 of P.L.1955, c.53 (C.39:3-17.1) shall be forwarded by the judge to whom the [same] fines and penalties have been paid to the State Treasurer, if the complaining witness is the chief administrator, a member of [his] the chief administrator's staff, a member of the State Police, an inspector of the Board of Public Utilities, or a law enforcement officer or other official of any other State agency; or, if the complaining witness is not one of the foregoing, one-half to the chief financial officer of the county and one-half to the chief financial officer of the municipality wherein the violation occurred.
j. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection a. and b. of this section, $2 shall be added to the amount of each fine and penalty imposed and collected by a court under authority of law for any violation of the provisions of Title 39 of the Revised Statutes or any other motor vehicle or traffic violation in this State and that amount shall be forwarded by the person to whom the fines and penalties are paid to the State Treasurer. The State Treasurer shall annually deposit the forwarded monies in the "Text 9-1-1 Fund" established pursuant to section 2 of P.L. c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill).
(cf: P.L.2008, c.116, s.1)
4. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires 9-1-1 service facilities to be equipped with systems approved by the Office of Emergency Telecommunications Services (OETS) for the processing of requests for emergency services sent via text message within two years following enactment of the bill.
Under the bill, $2 is to be added to the amount of each fine and penalty imposed for any motor vehicle or traffic violation in this State. The monies collected pursuant to the $2 increase in fines and penalties are to be annually deposited by the State Treasurer in the "Text 9-1-1 Fund" established in the OETS. Monies deposited in the "Text 9-1-1 Fund" are to be used to equip emergency 9-1-1 service facilities with systems to process requests for emergency services sent via text message.
