Bill Amendment: IL SB0239 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly

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Bill Title: SAFETY-TECH

Status: 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SB0239 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-SB0239-Senate_Amendment_001.html

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Sen. Antonio Mu�oz

Filed: 5/22/2018

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 239
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 239 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
In-Building Radio Coverage Enhancement Act.
Section 5. Purpose. This Act implements the provisions of
the International Fire Code that assure proper communications
among emergency response personnel to protect life and
commercial buildings during fire and other hazardous threats
through the enhancement of in-building radio signal strength of
the public safety radio system.
Section 10. Definitions. As used in this Act:
"Approved radio coverage" means that emergency responders
are able to transmit and receive radio signals of the public
safety radio system signal in 95% of all areas on each floor of

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a commercial building and in 99% of its critical building
areas.
"Authority having jurisdiction" means an organization,
office, or individual responsible for enforcing the
requirements of a code or standard, or for approving equipment,
materials, an installation, or a procedure.
"Commercial building" means a building other than a
single-family home; a dwelling containing 2 or fewer
apartments, condominiums, or townhomes; or a farm building as
exempted from Section 3 of the Illinois Architecture Practice
Act.
"Critical building area" includes a fire command center,
fire pump room, exit stair, exit passageway, elevator lobby,
standpipe cabinet, sprinkler sectional valve location, and
other areas deemed critical by the authority having
jurisdiction.
"In-building emergency radio coverage enhancement system"
means the products, such as repeaters, transmitters,
receivers, signal boosters and battery charging systems, used
to provide reliable 2-way wireless radio signal coverage for
emergency responders inside buildings.
"Public safety radio system" means a radio system
provisioned, installed, and maintained for the purpose of
providing wireless communication to serve the requirements of
emergency response agencies.

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Section 15. Approved radio coverage required; in-building
emergency radio enhancement systems.
(a) Within 18 months after the effective date of this Act:
(1) each applicant for a new construction permit for a
commercial building shall include an assessment of whether
the commercial building has approved radio coverage; and
(2) each owner of a commercial building not under
paragraph (1) shall conduct an assessment to determine
whether the commercial building has approved radio
coverage.
(b) All new and existing commercial buildings shall have
approved radio coverage to assure proper emergency response and
recovery mechanisms are available. If an assessment under
subsection (a) demonstrates that the in-building radio signal
strength of a public safety radio system fails to provide
approved radio coverage, then:
(1) if it is a commercial building under paragraph (1)
of subsection (a), an approved emergency radio coverage
enhancement system shall be installed and maintained in
accordance with Sections 510 and 1103.2 of the 2018
International Fire Code and the 2016 edition of National
Fire Protection Association Standard 1221 before occupancy
of the commercial building; or
(2) if it is a commercial building under paragraph (2)
of subsection (a), an approved emergency radio coverage
enhancement system shall be installed and maintained in

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accordance with Sections 510 and 1103.2 of the 2018
International Fire Code and the 2016 edition of National
Fire Protection Association Standard 1221 within 18 months
of the completion of the assessment.
The in-building emergency radio enhancement system shall
be listed by a nationally recognized testing laboratory that is
accredited by the United States Occupational Safety and Health
Administration to test and certify to American National
Standards Institute/Underwriters Laboratories Standard 2524.
Section 20. Existing public safety radio systems. This Act
does not require improvement of existing public safety radio
systems.
Section 25. Rules. The Office of the State Fire Marshal
shall adopt rules to implement and enforce this Act, including
rules for an accelerated timeline to conduct assessments of
compliance with approved radio coverage in schools, hospitals,
and other areas of mass congregation as determined by the
Office of the State Fire Marshal.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.".