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Session of 2000
          SENATE Substitute                     for HOUSE BILL No. 2945           By Committee on Commerce           3-20          

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12             AN  ACT relating to telecommunications services; establishing the en-
13             hanced 911 task force.
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15       Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
16             Section  1. (a) There is hereby established an enhanced 911 task force
17       which shall develop a strategy for funding and deploying wireless emer-
18       gency telephone services. Such plan shall include suggestions for future
19       action by the legislature with respect to deploying efficient and econom-
20       ical enhanced 911 services and implementing equitable and adequate
21       means to fund such services. Specifically, the task force shall make rec-
22       ommendations and propose legislation, if appropriate, concerning the fol-
23       lowing: (1) The mechanism for administering wireless 911 service, with
24       a focus on whether such service shall be administered on a centralized
25       basis; (2) the possible formation of an oversight board to address future
26       technological, coordination and regulatory issues related to deployment
27       of wireless emergency telephone service; (3) the fairness and adequacy
28       of the mechanism for funding such service; (4) the method, if any, for
29       recovering costs incurred by public safety answering points and by wire-
30       less telecommunications service providers in providing emergency tele-
31       phone service; and (5) any other issues the task force deems relevant to
32       the deployment of emergency telephone service.
33             (b) The task force shall consist of 17 members. Two members shall
34       be representatives of wireless telecommunications carriers to be ap-
35       pointed by the legislative coordinating council. The remainder of the task
36       force shall be appointed as follows: One member representing a local
37       exchange carrier other than a rural telephone company and one member
38       representing a rural telephone company who shall be recommended by
39       the Kansas telecommunications industry association. Two members shall
40       be recommended by the Kansas association of counties and two members
41       shall be recommended by the league of Kansas municipalities. One mem-
42       ber who shall be a person with a communication disability recommended
43       by the Kansas commission for the deaf and hard of hearing. One member

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  1       who shall be recommended by the Kansas emergency medical services
  2       association. One member who shall be recommended by the Kansas as-
  3       sociation of fire chiefs. The names of the recommended members shall
  4       be transmitted to the legislative coordinating council for final approval.
  5       No such recommended member shall serve unless approved by the coun-
  6       cil. The remaining members of the task force shall include: The super-
  7       intendent of the highway patrol or the superintendent's designee; the
  8       chair of the state corporation commission or the chair's designee; one
  9       member of the house of representatives appointed by the speaker of the
10       house of representatives; one member of the house of representatives
11       appointed by the house minority leader; one senator appointed by the
12       president of the senate; and one senator appointed by the senate minority
13       leader. The legislative coordinating council shall designate one legislative
14       member as chair of the task force. All meetings shall be on call of the
15       chair. Legislators serving on the task force shall be compensated at the
16       rate prescribed in K.S.A. 75-3223 and amendments thereto for each day
17       of actual attendance at task force meetings and any subcommittee meet-
18       ing approved by the chair. All other task force members shall serve with-
19       out compensation.
20             (c) The task force shall report its findings and conclusion to the house
21       committee on utilities and the senate committee on commerce during
22       the first week of the 2001 legislative session. The legislative research
23       department and the office of the revisor of statutes shall provide staff
24       support to the task force as necessary. Such legislative staff shall prepare
25       the report and any legislation recommended by the task force.
26             (d) The task force shall be and is hereby abolished on July 1, 2001.
27        Sec.  2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
28       publication in the Kansas register.
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