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<ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Senator Strickland</ns0:AuthorText>
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<ns0:Title> An act to amend Section 53121 of the Government Code, and to amend Section 41030 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, relating to emergency services. </ns0:Title>
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<html:p>Existing law requires the Office of Emergency Services to develop a plan and timeline of target dates for the testing, implementation, and operation of a Next Generation 911 emergency communication system, including text to 911 service, throughout California.</html:p>
<html:p>This bill would require the office to provide quarterly reports to the Legislature on the development, implementation, and spending on the Next Generation 911 system, as specified.</html:p>
<html:p>The Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act generally imposes a surcharge on amounts paid by every person in the state for intrastate telephone communication service and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service that provides access to the 911 and 988 emergency systems. Existing law requires the surcharge to be based on the Office of Emergency
Services’ estimate of the number of access lines to which the surcharge will be applied per month for a calendar year period that it estimates, pursuant to a specified formula, will produce sufficient revenue to fund the current fiscal year’s 911 and 988 costs. Existing law prohibits the 911 surcharge from exceeding $0.80 per month. </html:p>
<html:p>This bill would instead prohibit the charge from exceeding an unspecified amount per month.</html:p>
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Section 53121 of the
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(a)
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The Office of Emergency Services shall develop a plan and timeline of target dates for the testing, implementation, and operation of a Next Generation 911 emergency communication system, including text to 911 service, throughout California.
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(b)
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In order to maximize efficiency and contain costs, the Next Generation 911 emergency communication system shall incorporate, where consistent with public safety and technologically feasible, shared infrastructure and elements of other public safety and emergency communications networks, including, but not limited to, all of the following:
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(1)
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Public safety communications identified in the annual plan required by subdivision (b) of Section 15277.
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(2)
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Local and regional public safety broadband networks authorized by the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).
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(3)
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Public safety broadband networks authorized by the federal Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (Public Law 112-96).
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(4)
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Public safety radio and communications facilities used for the purpose of public warnings pursuant to Section 15254.
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(c)
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(1)
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The Office of Emergency Services shall provide quarterly reports to the Legislature on the development and implementation of, as well as total and current year funding spent on, the Next Generation 911 system in California. These reports shall
document progress toward, as well as major challenges facing, statewide development and implementation of Next Generation 911. Such challenges include technological, operational, and legal or contractual challenges, as well as other challenges identified by the office. The quarterly reports shall also include information on proposed solutions to these identified challenges, the potential costs of such solutions, effects on and changes to the implementation timeline and expected dates of completion, as well as progress made in implementing chosen solutions.
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(2)
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The Office of Emergency Services shall submit a copy of each quarterly report to the chairpersons of the budget committees of both houses, and the appropriate subcommittees in each house, of the Legislature that consider the state budget and the Legislative Analyst’s Office on or
before March 31, June 30, September 30, and December 31 of each year in compliance with Section 9795.
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(3)
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Notwithstanding Section 10231.5, the Office of Emergency Services shall continue submitting quarterly reports until the Next Generation 911 system has been fully implemented and the legacy 911 system has been decommissioned.
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Section 41030 of the
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(a)
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The Office of Emergency Services shall determine annually, on or before October 1, to be effective on January 1 of the following year, surcharge amounts pursuant to subdivision (b) that it estimates will produce sufficient revenue to fund the current fiscal year’s 911 and 988 costs.
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(b)
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The surcharge amounts shall be determined annually by dividing the costs, including incremental costs, the Office of Emergency Services estimates for the current fiscal year of the following:
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(1)
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The 911 costs approved pursuant to Article 6 (commencing with Section 53100) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code, less the available balance in the State Emergency Telephone Number Account
in the General Fund, by its estimate of the number of access lines to which the surcharge will apply per month for the period of January 1 to December 31, inclusive, of the next succeeding calendar year, but in no event shall the surcharge amount in any month be greater than ____($____) per access line per month.
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(2)
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For the 2023 and 2024 calendar years, the 988 surcharge shall be set at eight cents ($0.08) per access line per month.
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(3)
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For determinations that are made applicable to the calendar year beginning on January 1, 2025, and each calendar year thereafter, the 988 surcharge shall be determined by dividing the 988 costs approved pursuant to Article 6.3 (commencing
with Section 53123.1) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code, less the available balance in the 988 State Suicide and Behavioral Health Crisis Services Fund, by the Office of Emergency Services’ estimate of the number of access lines to which the surcharge will apply per month for the period of January 1 to December 31, inclusive, of the next succeeding calendar year, but in no event shall the surcharge amount in any month be greater than thirty cents ($0.30) per access line per month.
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(c)
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When determining the 911 surcharge amount pursuant to this section, the office shall include the costs it expects to incur to plan, test, implement, and operate Next Generation 911 technology and services, including text to 911 service, and alerts and warnings, consistent with the plan and timeline required by Section 53121 of the Government Code.
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(d)
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(1)
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Service suppliers shall report the total number of access lines to the Office of Emergency Services, on or before August 1, for the previous period of January 1 to December 31, inclusive.
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(2)
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The total number of access lines required to be reported in paragraph (1) shall include all lines from the categories of wireline communication service line, wireless communication service line, prepaid mobile telephony service line, and VoIP service line. The number of access line figures shall be reported individually for these categories.
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(3)
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Notwithstanding any other law, the Office of Emergency Services, within 45 days of receiving a request from the department, shall provide the department the name and address of each service supplier, each service supplier’s total number of access lines, as provided in paragraph (2) for the prior calendar year, and any other
information the department deems necessary to conduct its responsibilities under this part.
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(e)
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The office shall perform a validation of the number of access lines using subscription data or other comparable data collected by appropriate federal or state agencies. This subscription data or other comparable data shall be used to validate the access line data required to be reported by service suppliers in subdivision (d).
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(f)
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(1)
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The office shall notify the department of the surcharge amount imposed under this part, determined pursuant to this section on or before October 1 of each year.
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(2)
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The surcharge imposed on the purchase of prepaid mobile telephony services shall be equal to the amount set forth in subdivision (b) for each retail transaction in this state.
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(g)
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(1)
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At least 30 days prior to determining the surcharge pursuant to subdivision (a), the Office of Emergency Services shall prepare a summary of the calculation of the proposed surcharge amounts and make it available to the public, the Legislature, the California Health and Human Services Agency and relevant departments, and on its internet website.
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(2)
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For determinations made on or before October 1, 2019, the summary shall contain all of the following:
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(A)
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The prior year revenues to fund 911 costs, including, but not limited to, revenues from prepaid service.
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(B)
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Projected expenses and revenues from all sources, including, but not limited to, prepaid service to fund 911 costs.
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(C)
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The rationale for adjustment to the surcharges determined pursuant to subdivision (b).
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(h)
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For purposes of this section, for the determination made by the office on or before October 1, 2019, that is applicable for the calendar year beginning on January 1, 2020, and ending on December 31, 2020, the following definitions shall apply:
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(1)
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“Service supplier” shall mean a person supplying an access line to a service user in this state.
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(2)
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“Service user” means any person that subscribes for the right to utilize an access line in this state who is required to pay a surcharge under the provisions of this part.
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