Session of 2000
Effective: April 27, 2000
SENATE Substitute for HOUSE BILL No. 2945
An Act relating to telecommunications services;
establishing the
enhanced 911 task force.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. (a) There is hereby
established an enhanced 911 task force
which shall develop a strategy for funding and deploying wireless
emer-
gency telephone services. Such plan shall include suggestions for
future
action by the legislature with respect to deploying efficient and
econom-
ical enhanced 911 services and implementing equitable and
adequate
means to fund such services. Specifically, the task force shall
make rec-
ommendations and propose legislation, if appropriate, concerning
the fol-
lowing: (1) The mechanism for administering wireless 911 service,
with
a focus on whether such service shall be administered on a
centralized
basis; (2) the possible formation of an oversight board to address
future
technological, coordination and regulatory issues related to
deployment
of wireless emergency telephone service; (3) the fairness and
adequacy
of the mechanism for funding such service; (4) the method, if any,
for
recovering costs incurred by public safety answering points and by
wire-
less telecommunications service providers in providing emergency
tele-
phone service; and (5) any other issues the task force deems
relevant to
the deployment of emergency telephone service.
(b) The task force shall consist of 14
members. Two members shall
be representatives of wireless telecommunications carriers to be
ap-
pointed by the governor. The remainder of the task force shall be
ap-
pointed as follows: One member representing a local exchange
carrier
other than a rural telephone company and one member representing
a
rural telephone company who shall be recommended by the Kansas
tel-
ecommunications industry association. Two members shall be
recom-
mended by the Kansas association of counties and two members shall
be
recommended by the league of Kansas municipalities. One member
shall
be a person with a communication disability recommended by the
Kansas
commission for the deaf and hard of hearing. One member shall be
rec-
ommended by the Kansas emergency medical services board. One
mem-
ber shall be recommended by the Kansas association of fire chiefs.
One
member shall be recommended by the Kansas association of chiefs
of
police. The names of the recommended members shall be transmitted
to
the governor for final approval. No such recommended member
shall
serve unless approved by the governor. The remaining members of
the
task force shall include: The superintendent of the highway patrol
or the
superintendent's designee; the chair of the state corporation
commission
or the chair's designee. The governor shall designate one member as
chair
of the task force. All meetings shall be on call of the chair. All
task force
members shall serve without compensation.
(c) The task force shall report its
findings and conclusion to the house
committee on utilities and the senate committee on commerce
during
the first week of the 2001 legislative session. The state
corporation com-
mission shall provide staff support to the task force as necessary.
Such
staff shall prepare the report and any legislation recommended by
the
task force.
(d) The task force shall be and is hereby
abolished on July 1, 2001.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect
and be in force from and after its
publication in the Kansas register.