SB 1098 — WIRELESS EMERGNCY PHONE SAFETY

SB1098 EngrossedEnrolled LRB093 07334 MKM 07496 b AN ACT concerning telecommunications.

The Wireless Emergency Telephone Safety Act is amended by changing Sections 1010, 17, and 1735 and by adding Section 70 as follows:

_M_____________________u______________________l_____________ _____h_____________________t______________________e_____________ _____i_________________ _P_____________________l______________________n_____________ _____h______________________a_____________________i_____________ _____n______________________o_____________________f_____________ _____,_____________________l______________________t_____________ _____f_____________________a______________________t_____________ _____b_____________________i______________________c_____________ _____d_____________________v______________________o_____________ SB1098 EngrossedEnrolled -2- LRB093 07334 MKM 07496 b _____r_____________________a______________________a_____________ _____f_____________________c____________________ "Public safety agency" means a functional division of a public agency that provides fire fighting, police, medical, or other emergency services.

_S______________________b_____________________o_____________ _____e_____________________h______________________1_____________ _____t__ "Wireless carrier" means a provider of two-way cellular, broadband PCS, geographic area 800 MHZ and 900 MHZ Commercial Mobile Radio Service (CMRS), Wireless Communications Service (WCS), or other Commercial Mobile Radio Service (CMRS), as defined by the Federal Communications Commission, offering radio communications that may provide fixed, mobile, radio location, or satellite communication services to individuals or businesses within its assigned spectrum block and geographical area or that offers real-time, two-way voice service that is interconnected with the public switched SB1098 Enrolled -3- LRB093 07334 MKM 07496 b network, including a reseller of such service.

"Wireless enhanced 9-1-1" means the ability to relay the telephone number of the originator of a 9-1-1 call ___ SB1098 Engrossed -3- LRB093 07334 MKM 07496 b _____i________________ -----t---------------------c------------ -----s----------------------1-------- from any mobile handset or text telephone device accessing the wireless system to the designated wireless public safety answering point ______ ______i____________________F________________________C___________ _____D______________________a_____________________9_____________ _____t_____________________e______________________y_____________ _____m_____________ ------h----------------------a------------- -----i---------------------a----------------------i---------.

(a) Except as provided in Section 45, each wireless carrier shall impose a monthly wireless carrier surcharge per SB1098 Enrolled -4- LRB093 07334 MKM 07496 b CMRS connection that either has a telephone number within an area code assigned to Illinois by the North American Numbering Plan Administrator or has a billing address in this SB1098 Engrossed -4- LRB093 07334 MKM 07496 b State.

__________________p______________________o_____________ ______s______________________r____________________n_____________ _____i_____________________o______________________o_____________ _____s_______________________a____________________e__________________s_____________________n_______________________M____________ _____e_____________________e_______________e_____________________t______________________a_____________ _____i_____________________t______________________o_____________ _____m____________________ No wireless carrier shall impose the surcharge authorized by this Section upon any subscriber who is subject to the surcharge imposed by a unit of local government pursuant to Section 45.

SB1098 Enrolled -5- LRB093 07334 MKM 07496 b (c) The first such remittance by wireless carriers shall include the number of customers by zip code, and the 9-digit zip code if currently being used or later implemented by the carrier, that shall be the means by which the Department of SB1098 Engrossed -5- LRB093 07334 MKM 07496 b Central Management Services shall determine distributions from the Wireless Service Emergency Fund.

7-1-02.) (50 ILCS 751/70)751/35) (Section scheduled to be repealed on April 1, 2005) Sec.

35.

Wireless Carrier Reimbursement Fund;

reimbursement.

To recover costs from the Wireless Carrier Reimbursement Fund, the wireless carrier shall submit sworn invoices to the Department of Central Management Services.

In no event may any invoice for payment be approved for (i) costs that are not related to compliance with the requirements established by the wireless enhanced 9-1-1 mandates of the Federal Communications Commission, (ii) costs with respect to any wireless enhanced 9-1-1 service that is not operable at the time the invoice is submitted, or (iii) costs of any wireless carrier exceeding 125% of the wireless emergency services charges remitted to the Wireless Carrier Reimbursement Fund by the wireless carrier under Section 17(b)unless the wireless carrier received prior approval for the expenditures from the Department of Central Management Services.

If in any month the total amount of invoices submitted to the Department of Central Management Services and approved for payment exceeds the amount available in the Wireless Carrier Reimbursement Fund, wireless carriers that have invoices approved for payment shall receive a pro-rata share SB1098 Enrolled -6- LRB093 07334 MKM 07496 b of the amount available in the Wireless Carrier Reimbursement Fund based on the relative amount of their approved invoices available that month, and the balance of the payments shall be carried into the following months-------s------------- -----p---------------------e----------------- until all of the approved payments are made.

A wireless carrier may not receive payment from the Wireless Carrier Reimbursement Fund for its costs of providing wireless enhanced 9-1-1 services in an area when a unit of local government or emergency telephone system board provides wireless 9-1-1 services in that area and was imposing and collecting a wireless carrier surcharge prior to July 1, 1998.

The Department of Central Management Services shall maintain detailed records of all receipts and disbursements and shall provide an annual accounting of all receipts and disbursements to the Auditor General.

The Department of Central Management Services shall adopt rules to govern the reimbursement process.

(Source:

P.A.

91-660, eff.

12-22-99.) (50 ILCS 751/70) (Section scheduled to be repealed on April 1, 2005) Sec.