Bill Text: IA SF2326 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the funding of the statewide interoperable communications system and the expenditure of moneys from the E911 emergency communications fund. (Formerly SSB 3189.) Effective 7-1-16.

Sponsorship: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2016-05-11 - Signed by Governor. S.J. 0. [SF2326 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-SF2326-Enrolled.html

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Senate File 2326 - Enrolled




                              SENATE FILE       
                              BY  COMMITTEE ON
                                  APPROPRIATIONS

                              (SUCCESSOR TO SSB
                                  3189)
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                                   A BILL FOR
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                                       Senate File 2326

                             AN ACT
 RELATING TO THE FUNDING OF THE STATEWIDE INTEROPERABLE
    COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND THE EXPENDITURE OF MONEYS FROM THE
    E911 EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS FUND.

 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
    Section 1.  Section 29C.23, Code 2016, is amended to read as
 follows:
    29C.23  Iowa radio interoperability platform Statewide
 interoperable communications system.
    1.  The Iowa radio interoperability platform statewide
 interoperable communications system shall be under the
 joint purview of the department of public safety and the
 department of transportation. The departments shall jointly
 submit a biannual report to the Iowa statewide interoperable
 communications system board beginning July 1, 2016.
    2.  The treasurer of state is authorized to enter into
 a financing agreement in accordance with the provisions
 of section 12.28 for the purpose of building the statewide
 interoperable communications system.
    Sec. 2.  Section 34A.7A, subsection 2, Code 2016, is amended
 by adding the following new paragraph:
    NEW PARAGRAPH.  0f.  The program manager shall allocate
  four million three hundred eighty=three thousand dollars to
 the department of public safety in the fiscal year beginning
 July 1, 2016, and ending June 30, 2017, for payments and other
 costs due under a financing agreement entered into by the
 treasurer of state for building the statewide interoperable
 communications system pursuant to section 29C.23, subsection 2.
    Sec. 3.  Section 34A.7A, subsection 2, paragraph f, Code
 2016, is amended to read as follows:
    f.  If moneys remain in the fund after fully paying all
 obligations under paragraphs "a", "b", "c", "d", and "e",
 and "0f", the remainder may be accumulated in the fund as
 a carryover operating surplus. The program manager, in
 consultation with the E911 communications council, shall
 allocate an amount, not to exceed one hundred thousand
 dollars per fiscal year, for development of public awareness
 and educational programs related to the use of 911 by the
 public, educational programs for personnel responsible for the
 maintenance, operation, and upgrading of local E911 systems,
 and the expenses of members of the E911 communications council
 for travel, monthly meetings, and training. The remaining
 surplus shall be used to fund future network and public safety
 answering point improvements for the receipt and disposition
 of 911 calls, including hardware and software for an internet
 protocol=enabled next generation network, and wireless
 carriers' transport costs related to wireless E911 services, if
 those costs are not otherwise recovered by wireless carriers
 through customer billing or other sources and approved by the
 program manager in consultation with the E911 communications
 council. Notwithstanding section 8.33, any moneys remaining
 in the fund at the end of each fiscal year shall not revert to
 the general fund of the state but shall remain available for
 the purposes of the fund.
    Sec. 4.  CODE EDITOR DIRECTIVE.  If 2016 Iowa Acts, House
 File 2439 and this Act, if enacted, amend section 34A.7A,
 subsection 2, by adding new lettered paragraphs before section
 34A.7A, subsection 2, paragraph "f", the Code editor shall, if
 possible, harmonize the amendments in those two Acts to section
 34A.7A, subsection 2, paragraph "f", to modify the references
 to the lettered paragraphs codified in that subsection 2 before
 that paragraph "f", so that the references also refer to both
 new lettered paragraphs added by those two Acts.


                                                             
                               PAM JOCHUM
                               President of the Senate


                                                             
                               LINDA UPMEYER
                               Speaker of the House
    I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and
 is known as Senate File 2326, Eighty=sixth General Assembly.


                                                             
                               MICHAEL E. MARSHALL
                               Secretary of the Senate
 Approved                , 2016


                                                             
                               TERRY E. BRANSTAD
                               Governor

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