Bill Text: OH HCR25 | 2013-2014 | 130th General Assembly | Comm Sub
Bill Title: To urge the United States House of Representatives
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-06-19 - Committee Report [HCR25 Detail]
Download: Ohio-2013-HCR25-Comm_Sub.html
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Representative Rosenberger
Cosponsors:
Representatives Adams, J., Beck, Buchy, Dovilla, Smith, Sprague
To urge the United States House of Representatives | 1 |
Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on | 2 |
Communications and Technology to hold regular | 3 |
hearings regarding the nationwide broadband public | 4 |
safety network, require the First Responder | 5 |
Network Authority (FirstNet) to identify the costs | 6 |
of such network to Ohio, and include related | 7 |
amendments to the law governing FirstNet. | 8 |
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF OHIO
(THE SENATE CONCURRING):
WHEREAS, Ohio's first responders require mission critical | 9 |
communications infrastructure to effectively do their jobs; and | 10 |
WHEREAS, Ohio has invested over $500,000,000 in system assets | 11 |
that include over 200 tower sites, shelters, generators, mobile | 12 |
towers, microwave backhaul, consoles, and mobile and portable | 13 |
radios; and | 14 |
WHEREAS, Over 55,000 first responders and public service | 15 |
users at the federal, state, and local government levels rely on | 16 |
the assets that Ohio has invested in; and | 17 |
WHEREAS, The federal Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation | 18 |
Act of 2012 created the First Responder Network Authority | 19 |
(FirstNet) within the United States Department of Commerce | 20 |
National Telecommunications and Information Administration and | 21 |
tasked FirstNet with building and maintaining a single, | 22 |
nationwide, interoperable broadband public safety network; and | 23 |
WHEREAS, FirstNet is requiring states to inventory their | 24 |
assets and develop statewide plans to allow federal use or | 25 |
takeover of those assets for the undetermined nationwide broadband | 26 |
public safety network; and | 27 |
WHEREAS, FirstNet is requiring states to opt into, and | 28 |
provide an undetermined level of financial support to, the | 29 |
nationwide broadband public safety network; and | 30 |
WHEREAS, FirstNet appears to lack sufficient funding for the | 31 |
nationwide broadband public safety network, but is requiring a | 32 |
self-sustaining model; and | 33 |
WHEREAS, FirstNet lacks planning and did not seek input from | 34 |
Ohio as evidenced by the witnesses who testified before, and | 35 |
submitted testimony to, the United States House of Representatives | 36 |
Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications | 37 |
and Technology in a March 2013, hearing entitled "Oversight of | 38 |
FirstNet and Emergency Communications"; now therefore be it | 39 |
RESOLVED, That we, the members of the 130th General Assembly | 40 |
of the State of Ohio, respectfully urge the Subcommittee on | 41 |
Communications and Technology to hold regular hearings regarding | 42 |
the nationwide broadband public safety network and require that | 43 |
FirstNet create a publicly vetted business plan that identifies | 44 |
the exact costs that Ohio will be mandated to appropriate or | 45 |
obligate for the nationwide broadband public safety network; and | 46 |
be it further | 47 |
RESOLVED, That we, the members of the 130th General Assembly | 48 |
of the State of Ohio, respectfully urge the Subcommittee on | 49 |
Communications and Technology to include amendments to the law | 50 |
that would allow Ohio to opt-out of the nationwide broadband | 51 |
public safety network with no net costs; and be it further | 52 |
RESOLVED, That we, the members of the 130th General Assembly | 53 |
of the State of Ohio, respectfully urge the Subcommittee on | 54 |
Communications and Technology to include amendments to the law | 55 |
that require FirstNet to provide full written assurances that | 56 |
communications provided by the nationwide broadband public safety | 57 |
network will meet and exceed the current level of service for | 58 |
Ohio's state and local public safety officers in the areas of | 59 |
reliability, redundancy, and state-based system control; and be it | 60 |
further | 61 |
RESOLVED, That we, the members of the 130th General Assembly | 62 |
of the State of Ohio, respectfully urge the Subcommittee on | 63 |
Communications and Technology to include amendments to the law | 64 |
that require FirstNet to provide fair market compensation to Ohio | 65 |
for access and utilization of state-owned assets in support of the | 66 |
network's deployment; and be it further | 67 |
RESOLVED, That we, the members of the 130th General Assembly | 68 |
of the State of Ohio, respectfully urge the United States Congress | 69 |
to reconsider the statute and appropriations creating FirstNet; | 70 |
and be if further | 71 |
RESOLVED, That the Clerk of the House of Representatives | 72 |
transmit duly authenticated copies of this resolution to the | 73 |
Speaker and Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, | 74 |
the President Pro Tempore and Secretary of the United States | 75 |
Senate, all members of the United States House of Representatives | 76 |
Energy and Commerce Committee, the members of the Ohio | 77 |
Congressional delegation, and the news media of Ohio. | 78 |