Bill Text: TX SB1858 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the next generation 9-1-1 service fund.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-18 - Left pending in committee [SB1858 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1858-Introduced.html
By: Hancock | S.B. No. 1858 | |
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relating to the next generation 9-1-1 service fund. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 771.0713, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by amending Subsections (b), (c), (f) and (g) and adding | ||
Subsections (c-1), (c-2), (c-3) and (c-4) to read as follows: | ||
(b) Notwithstanding any other law and except as provided by | ||
federal or state law, the comptroller shall transfer to the credit | ||
of the next generation 9-1-1 service fund any amount available (i) | ||
from federal money provided to this state from the Coronavirus | ||
State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds under Section 9901 of the | ||
American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Pub. L. No. 117-2) or from any | ||
other federal governmental source, or (ii) from any state | ||
governmental source, for purposes of this chapter. The comptroller | ||
shall transfer the money as soon as practicable following the | ||
receipt by this state of a sufficient amount of federal money for | ||
the transfer or as soon as practicable after the effective date of | ||
the most recent appropriation of state funds by the legislature for | ||
this purpose. | ||
(c) Money deposited to the credit of the next generation | ||
9-1-1 service fund may be used only for the purpose of supporting | ||
the deployment and reliable operation of next generation 9-1-1 | ||
service, including the costs of equipment, operations, and | ||
administration. | ||
(c-1) Money in the fund from federal sources may be | ||
distributed to only the commission and emergency communication | ||
districts and must be used in a manner the complies with federal | ||
law. | ||
(c-2) For any money in the fund resulting from the | ||
appropriation of state funds, except as provided by Subsection | ||
(c-3), after the money is deposited into the fund, the commission | ||
shall distribute to each emergency communication district that does | ||
not participate in the state system a portion of the money that | ||
bears the same proportion that the population of the area served by | ||
the district bears to the population of the state. | ||
(c-3) For each emergency communication district created | ||
under Chapter 772 that is entitled to a portion of the money | ||
distributed under Subsection (c-2), the commission shall: | ||
(1) reduce the portion to which that district is | ||
entitled by an amount equal to [nine percent] of that portion and | ||
distribute that amount in equal shares to all the emergency | ||
communication districts created under Chapter 772; and | ||
(2) distribute to that district the remainder of the | ||
portion to which the district is entitled under Subsection (c-2) | ||
that is not distributed under Subdivision (1). | ||
(c-4) The remaining money in the fund appropriated from | ||
state funds that is not otherwise distributed under Subsection | ||
(c-2) or (c-3) shall be deposited to the 9-1-1 services fee account. | ||
(f) All money in the fund from the Coronavirus State and | ||
Local Fiscal Recovery Funds under Section 9901 of the American | ||
Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Pub. L. No. 117-2) shall be distributed in | ||
accordance with this section not later than [ |
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August 31, 2024, and all money distributed under this section from | ||
the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds under Section | ||
9901 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Pub. L. No. 117-2) | ||
shall be spent not later than [ |
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for the deployment and reliable operation of next generation 9-1-1 | ||
service. | ||
(g) This section expires [ |
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2026. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |