Bill Text: CA AB510 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Wireless 911 calls: emergency telephone user surcharge.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From Senate committee without further action. [AB510 Detail]
Download: California-2015-AB510-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 510 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE JULY 15, 2015
AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 22, 2015
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Members Rodriguez and Williams
FEBRUARY 23, 2015
An act to add Section 15277.5 to the Government Code, and to
repeal and amend Section 41030 of the Revenue and Taxation
Code, relating to emergency services, and declaring the urgency
thereof, to take effect immediately.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 510, as amended, Rodriguez. Emergency
Wireless 911 calls: emergency telephone user surcharge.
Existing law establishes the Public Safety Communications Division
within the Office of Emergency Services, under the supervision of a
chief, to carry out specific duties relating to state needs and plans
for public safety communications systems and equipment.
This bill would require the division to require its California 911
Emergency Communications Branch to work with the Department of the
California Highway Patrol to continue the work of the Routing on
Empirical Data (RED) Project by using the technology and procedures
employed in that project to assist in determining whether wireless
911 calls should be routed to a local public safety answering point
or a California Highway Patrol call center. The bill would require
that the project use historical empirical call data to determine the
most efficient routing for wireless 911 calls.
The Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act generally imposes a
surcharge on amounts paid by every person in the state for intrastate
telephone service to provide revenues sufficient to fund "911"
emergency telephone system costs, and requires the Office of
Emergency Services to annually determine the surcharge rate, subject
to a specified formula, that it estimates will produce sufficient
revenue to fund the current fiscal year's 911 costs, as specified.
This bill would instead impose the surcharge at a flat monthly
rate of between $0.15 and $0.75, determined annually by the office.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 15277.5 is added to the
Government Code , to read:
15277.5. The division shall require its California 911 Emergency
Communications Branch to work with the Department of the California
Highway Patrol to continue the work of the Routing on Empirical Data
(RED) Project by using the technology and procedures employed in that
project to assist in determining whether wireless 911 calls should
be routed to a local public safety answering point or a California
Highway Patrol call center. The project pursuant to this section
shall use historical empirical call data to determine the most
efficient routing for wireless 911 calls.
SECTION 1. SEC. 2. Section 41030 of
the Revenue and Taxation Code, as added by Section 6 of Chapter 885
of the Statutes of 2014, is repealed.
SEC. 2. SEC. 3. Section 41030 of the
Revenue and Taxation Code, as amended by Chapter 926 of the Statutes
of 2014, is amended to read:
41030. (a) The Office of Emergency Services shall determine
annually, on or before October 1, to be effective on January 1 of the
following year, a surcharge rate pursuant to subdivision (b) that it
estimates will produce sufficient revenue to fund the current fiscal
year's 911 costs.
(b) Commencing with the calculation made October 1, 2015, to be
effective January 1, 2016, the surcharge shall be determined by the
Office of Emergency Services using estimates for the current fiscal
year of 911 costs approved pursuant to Article 6 (commencing with
Section 53100) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the
Government Code for the period of January 1 to December 31,
inclusive, of the next succeeding calendar year, but in no event
shall the surcharge rate in any year be less than fifteen cents
($0.15) per month or greater than seventy-five cents ($0.75) per
month.
(c) When determining the surcharge rates pursuant to this section,
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.
(d) The office shall notify the board of the surcharge rate
determined pursuant to this section and the surcharge rate applicable
to prepaid mobile telephony services by October 15 of each year.
(e) At least 30 days prior to determining the surcharge pursuant
to subdivision (a), the Office of Emergency Services shall prepare a
summary of the calculation of the proposed surcharge and make it
available to the public, the Legislature, the 911 Advisory Board, and
on its Internet Web site. The summary shall contain all of the
following:
(1) The prior year revenues to fund 911 costs, including, but not
limited to, revenues from prepaid service.
(2) Projected expenses and revenues from all sources, including,
but not limited to, prepaid service to fund 911 costs.
(3) The rationale for adjustment to the surcharge determined
pursuant to subdivision (b), including, but not limited to, all
impacts from the surcharge collected pursuant to Part 21 (commencing
with Section 42001).
(f) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2020, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2020, deletes or extends
that date.
SEC. 3. SEC. 4. Section 41030 of the
Revenue and Taxation Code, as added by Chapter 926 of the Statutes
of 2014, 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 apply for the period of January 1 to
December 31, inclusive, of the next succeeding calendar year, but in
no event shall the surcharge rate in any year be less than fifteen
cents ($0.15) per month or greater than seventy-five cents ($0.75)
per month.
(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) 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.
(d) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2020.
SEC. 4. SEC. 5. This act is an
urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the
public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of
the Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts
constituting the necessity are:
In order to restart the Routing on Empirical Data (RED)
Project for efficient routing of wireless 911 calls and to
fully fund the "911" emergency telephone number system, it is
necessary that this act take effect immediately.
