Bill Text: GA HB1321 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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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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10 LC 28 5256S

The Senate Finance Committee offered the following substitute to HB 1321:

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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.