Bill Text: OH HB148 | 2009-2010 | 128th General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: To require certain technological improvements and updates for 9-1-1 systems in Ohio.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-04-23 - To Public Safety & Homeland Security [HB148 Detail]

Download: Ohio-2009-HB148-Introduced.html
As Introduced

128th General Assembly
Regular Session
2009-2010
H. B. No. 148


Representative Miller 



A BILL
To amend section 4931.40 and to enact section 4931.55 1
of the Revised Code to require certain 2
technological improvements and updates for 9-1-1 3
systems in Ohio.4


BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:

       Section 1. That section 4931.40 be amended and section 5
4931.55 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:6

       Sec. 4931.40.  As used in sections 4931.40 to 4931.70 of the 7
Revised Code:8

       (A) "9-1-1 system" means a system through which individuals 9
can request emergency service using the telephone number 9-1-1.10

       (B) "Basic 9-1-1" means a 9-1-1 system in which a caller11
provides information on the nature of and the location of an12
emergency, and the personnel receiving the call must determine the 13
appropriate emergency service provider to respond at that14
location.15

       (C) "Enhanced 9-1-1" means a 9-1-1 system capable of 16
providing both enhanced wireline 9-1-1 and wireless enhanced 17
9-1-1.18

       (D) "Enhanced wireline 9-1-1" means a 9-1-1 system in which 19
the wireline telephone network, in providing wireline 9-1-1, 20
automatically routes the call to emergency service providers that 21
serve the location from which the call is made and immediately 22
provides to personnel answering the 9-1-1 call information on the 23
location and the telephone number from which the call is being 24
made.25

       (E) "Wireless enhanced 9-1-1" means a 9-1-1 system that, in 26
providing wireless 9-1-1, has the capabilities of phase I and, to 27
the extent available, phase II enhanced 9-1-1 services as28
described in 47 C.F.R. 20.18 (d) to (h).29

       (F)(1) "Wireless service" means federally licensed commercial 30
mobile service as defined in 47 U.S.C. 332(d) and further defined 31
as commercial mobile radio service in 47 C.F.R. 20.3, and includes 32
service provided by any wireless, two-way communications device, 33
including a radio-telephone communications line used in cellular34
telephone service or personal communications service, a network 35
radio access line, or any functional or competitive equivalent of 36
such a radio-telephone communications or network radio access 37
line.38

       (2) Nothing in sections 4931.40 to 4931.70 of the Revised 39
Code applies to paging or any service that cannot be used to call 40
9-1-1.41

       (G) "Wireless service provider" means a facilities-based 42
provider of wireless service to one or more end users in this 43
state.44

       (H) "Wireless 9-1-1" means the emergency calling service 45
provided by a 9-1-1 system pursuant to a call originating in the 46
network of a wireless service provider.47

       (I) "Wireline 9-1-1" means the emergency calling service 48
provided by a 9-1-1 system pursuant to a call originating in the 49
network of a wireline service provider.50

       (J) "Wireline service provider" means a facilities-based 51
provider of wireline service to one or more end-users in this52
state.53

       (K) "Wireline service" means basic local exchange service, as 54
defined in section 4927.01 of the Revised Code, that is 55
transmitted by means of interconnected wires or cables by a 56
wireline service provider authorized by the public utilities57
commission.58

       (L) "Wireline telephone network" means the selective router 59
and data base processing systems, trunking and data wiring cross 60
connection points at the public safety answering point, and all 61
other voice and data components of the 9-1-1 system.62

       (M) "Subdivision" means a county, municipal corporation,63
township, township fire district, joint fire district, township64
police district, joint ambulance district, or joint emergency 65
medical services district that provides emergency service within 66
its territory, or that contracts with another municipal 67
corporation, township, or district or with a private entity to 68
provide such service; and a state college or university, port 69
authority, or park district of any kind that employs law 70
enforcement officers that act as the primary police force on the 71
grounds of the college or university or port authority or in the 72
parks operated by the district.73

       (N) "Emergency service" means emergency law enforcement,74
firefighting, ambulance, rescue, and medical service.75

       (O) "Emergency service provider" means the state highway76
patrol and an emergency service department or unit of a77
subdivision or that provides emergency service to a subdivision 78
under contract with the subdivision.79

       (P) "Public safety answering point" means a facility to which 80
9-1-1 system calls for a specific territory are initially routed 81
for response and where personnel respond to specific requests for 82
emergency service by directly dispatching the appropriate 83
emergency service provider, relaying a message to the appropriate 84
provider, or transferring the call to the appropriate provider.85

       (Q) "Customer premises equipment" means telecommunications86
equipment, including telephone instruments, on the premises of a87
public safety answering point that is used in answering and88
responding to 9-1-1 system calls.89

       (R) "Municipal corporation in the county" includes any90
municipal corporation that is wholly contained in the county and91
each municipal corporation located in more than one county that92
has a greater proportion of its territory in the county to which93
the term refers than in any other county.94

       (S) "Board of county commissioners" includes the legislative 95
authority of a county established under Section 3 of Article X, 96
Ohio Constitution, or Chapter 302. of the Revised Code.97

       (T) "Final plan" means a final plan adopted under division98
(B) of section 4931.44 of the Revised Code and, except as99
otherwise expressly provided, an amended final plan adopted under100
section 4931.45 of the Revised Code.101

       (U) "Subdivision served by a public safety answering point" 102
means a subdivision that provides emergency service for any part 103
of its territory that is located within the territory of a public 104
safety answering point whether the subdivision provides the 105
emergency service with its own employees or pursuant to a106
contract.107

       (V) A township's population includes only population of the 108
unincorporated portion of the township.109

       (W) "Telephone company" means a company engaged in the110
business of providing local exchange telephone service by making 111
available or furnishing access and a dial tone to persons within a 112
local calling area for use in originating and receiving voice 113
grade communications over a switched network operated by the114
provider of the service within the area and gaining access to 115
other telecommunications services. "Telephone company" includes a 116
wireline service provider and a wireless service provider unless 117
otherwise expressly specified. For purposes of sections 4931.52 118
and 4931.53 of the Revised Code, "telephone company" means a 119
wireline service provider.120

       (X) "Communications instrument" means any electronic machine 121
or device that is capable of transmitting data between two or more 122
persons or from one person to another person, including devices 123
transmitting voice, text, photographic, video, and telematic data.124

       (Y) "Automatic collision notification" means a type of 125
telematic data sent from a motor vehicle containing information 126
regarding an accident involving the vehicle.127

       (Z) "Telematic data" means data in a form that combines 128
telecommunications and computer technology and includes automatic 129
collision notification.130

       Sec. 4931.55.  Each subdivision operating a public safety 131
answering point, in consultation with the Ohio 9-1-1 coordinator, 132
the Ohio 9-1-1 council, the wireless 9-1-1 advisory board, and the 133
public utilities commission, shall update and improve its customer 134
premises equipment to do all of the following: 135

       (A) Receive data from every type of communications 136
instrument; 137

       (B) Determine the physical location of a person placing a 138
call to the 9-1-1 system using a wireline service, a wireless 139
service, voice over internet protocol technology, or any other 140
major emerging telephone technology in common use and, based on 141
the caller's physical location, automatically transfer or route 142
the call to the appropriate emergency service provider;143

       (C) Increase access to the 9-1-1 system for the hearing 144
impaired; 145

       (D) Send alerts to portable communications instruments 146
approaching the physical locations of emergencies notifying their 147
users of such emergencies.148

       Section 2.  That existing section 4931.40 of the Revised Code 149
is hereby repealed.150

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