Bill Text: IL HB3354 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Wireless Emergency Telephone Safety Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning definitions.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-27 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3354 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-HB3354-Introduced.html

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2015 and 2016 HB3354 Introduced , by Rep. Thomas Bennett SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
50 ILCS 751/10
Amends the Wireless Emergency Telephone Safety Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning definitions.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Wireless Emergency Telephone Safety Act is
amended by changing Section 10 as follows:
(50 ILCS 751/10)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2015)
Sec. 10. Definitions. In this Act:
"Emergency telephone system board" means means a board
appointed by the corporate authorities of any county or
municipality that provides for the management and operation of
a 9-1-1 system within the scope of the duties and powers
prescribed by the Emergency Telephone System Act.
"Master street address guide" means the computerized
geographical database that consists of all street and address
data within a 9-1-1 system.
"Mobile telephone number" or "MTN" shall mean the telephone
number assigned to a wireless telephone at the time of initial
activation.
"Prepaid wireless telecommunications service" means
wireless telecommunications service that allows a caller to
dial 9-1-1 to access the 9-1-1 system, which service must be
paid for in advance and is sold in predetermined units or

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dollars which the amount declines with use in a known amount.
"Public safety agency" means a functional division of a
public agency that provides fire fighting, police, medical, or
other emergency services. For the purpose of providing wireless
service to users of 9-1-1 emergency services, as expressly
provided for in this Act, the Department of State Police may be
considered a public safety agency.
"Qualified governmental entity" means a unit of local
government authorized to provide 9-1-1 services pursuant to the
Emergency Telephone System Act where no emergency telephone
system board exists.
"Remit period" means the billing period, one month in
duration, for which a wireless carrier remits a surcharge and
provides subscriber information by zip code to the Illinois
Commerce Commission, in accordance with Section 17 of this Act.
"Statewide wireless emergency 9-1-1 system" means all
areas of the State where an emergency telephone system board
or, in the absence of an emergency telephone system board, a
qualified governmental entity has not declared its intention
for one or more of its public safety answering points to serve
as a primary wireless 9-1-1 public safety answering point for
its jurisdiction. The operator of the statewide wireless
emergency 9-1-1 system shall be the Department of State Police.
"Wireless carrier" means a provider of two-way cellular,
broadband PCS, geographic area 800 MHZ and 900 MHZ Commercial
Mobile Radio Service (CMRS), Wireless Communications Service

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(WCS), or other Commercial Mobile Radio Service (CMRS), as
defined by the Federal Communications Commission, offering
radio communications that may provide fixed, mobile, radio
location, or satellite communication services to individuals
or businesses within its assigned spectrum block and
geographical area or that offers real-time, two-way voice
service that is interconnected with the public switched
network, including a reseller of such service.
"Wireless enhanced 9-1-1" means the ability to relay the
telephone number of the originator of a 9-1-1 call and location
information from any mobile handset or text telephone device
accessing the wireless system to the designated wireless public
safety answering point as set forth in the order of the Federal
Communications Commission, FCC Docket No. 94-102, adopted June
12, 1996, with an effective date of October 1, 1996, and any
subsequent amendment thereto.
"Wireless public safety answering point" means the
functional division of an emergency telephone system board,
qualified governmental entity, or the Department of State
Police accepting wireless 9-1-1 calls.
"Wireless subscriber" means an individual or entity to whom
a wireless service account or number has been assigned by a
wireless carrier, other than an account or number associated
with prepaid wireless telecommunication service.
(Source: P.A. 97-463, eff. 1-1-12.)