Kentucky House Bill 540 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on February 29 2016 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-03-08 - posted in committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [PDF]

Repeal, reenact as a new section of KRS Chapter 39G, and amend KRS 42.734 to require the Kentucky Wireless Interoperability Executive Committee to advise and make recommendations to the executive director of the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security instead of the executive director of the Commonwealth Office of Technology; repeal, reenact as a new section of KRS Chapter 39G, and amend KRS 42.736 to make definitions apply to the reenacted and renumbered sections; repeal, reenact as a new section of KRS Chapter 39G, and amend KRS 42.738 to require the executive director of the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security to establish a statewide public safety interoperability plan by October 1, 2016; require the plan to include the creation of a statewide interoperable public safety radio network, a cost-benefit analysis of moving from the current network of disparate radio systems to a statewide interoperable network, and the development of interoperability standards for new and upgraded state and local public safety communications systems; require the executive director of the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security to report to the Interim Joint Committee on Seniors, Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection and the Interim Joint Committee on State Government by September 15 of each year; remove the executive director of Kentucky Educational Television, the chief information officer of the Energy and Environment Cabinet, the chief information officer for the Department for Public Health, the representative of a postsecondary education institution, the executive director of the Center for Rural Development from the membership of the executive committee; attach the executive committee to the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security instead of the Commonwealth Office of Technology for administrative purposes.

AN ACT relating to statewide communications interoperability.

Rep. Martha King [D]

Rep. Dean Schamore [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-03-08	House	posted in committee
2016-03-01	House	to State Government (H)
2016-02-29	House	introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB540.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB540/bill.pdf