Bill Text: NJ A3657 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires at least 10 percent of "9-1-1 System and Emergency Response Trust Fund Account" funds be allocated to public safety answering point technology upgrades and maintenance.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-16 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Homeland Security and State Preparedness Committee [A3657 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2020-A3657-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblywoman VALERIE VAINIERI HUTTLE
District 37 (Bergen)
SYNOPSIS
Requires at least 10 percent of "9-1-1 System and Emergency Response Trust Fund Account" funds be allocated to public safety answering point technology upgrades and maintenance.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning the "9-1-1 System and Emergency Response Trust Fund Account" and amending P.L.2004, c.48.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 3 of P.L.2004, c.48 (C.52:17C-19) is amended to read as follows:
3. a. There is established in the Department of the Treasury within the General Fund a special account to be known as the "9-1-1 System and Emergency Response Trust Fund Account."
b. Funds credited to the "9-1-1 System and Emergency Response Trust Fund Account" shall be annually appropriated for the purposes of paying: (1) eligible costs pursuant to the provisions of sections 13 and 14 of P.L.1989, c.3 (C.52:17C-13 and [52:17C-14] C.52:17C-14); (2) the costs of funding the State's capital equipment (including debt service), facilities, and operating expenses that arise from emergency response; (3) the cost of emergency response training, including any related costs or expenses of the Office of Emergency Management in the Division of State Police in the Department of Law and Public Safety; (4) the cost of operating the Office of Emergency Telecommunications Services created pursuant to section 3 of P.L.1989, c.3 (C.52:17C-3); (5) the cost of operating the Statewide Public Safety Communications Commission created pursuant to section 5 of P.L.2011, c.4 (C.52:17C-3.2); (6) any costs associated with implementing any requirement of the Federal Communications Commission concerning 9-1-1 service that is not otherwise allocated to a telecommunications carrier and not eligible for reimbursement under law, rule, or regulation; (7) any costs associated with planning, designing, or implementing an automatic location identification technology that is not otherwise allocated to a wireless telecommunications carrier and not eligible for reimbursement under law, rule, or regulation; and (8) any costs associated with planning, designing or acquiring replacement equipment or systems (including debt service) related to the enhanced 9-1-1 network as defined [by] pursuant to subsection e. of section 1 of P.L.1989, c.3 (C.52:17C-1). At least 10 percent of funds credited to the "9-1-1 System and Emergency Response Trust Fund Account" shall be annually appropriated for the purpose of paying for the costs of any annual upgrade and maintenance of public safety answering point technology, including the upgrading and maintenance of automatic location identification technology.
(cf: P.L.2013, c.245, s.1)
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires that at least 10 percent of "9-1-1 System and Emergency Response Trust Fund Account" funds are to be annually appropriated for the purpose of paying for the costs of any annual upgrade and maintenance of 9-1-1 public safety answering point technology, including the upgrading and maintenance of automatic location identification technology.
