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House Journal: Page 1146: Wednesday, April 1, 1998

25   communications channel utilized only for data
26   transmission, or a private telecommunications system.
27     Sec. 10.  Section 34A.15, subsection 1, unnumbered
28   paragraph 1, Code 1997, is amended to read as follows:
29     An E911 communications council is established.  The
30   council consists of the following eleven thirteen
31   members:
32     Sec. 11.  Section 34A.15, subsection 1, Code 1997,
33   is amended by adding the following new paragraph:
34     NEW PARAGRAPH.  k.  Two persons appointed by the
35   Iowa wireless industry.  One appointee shall represent
36   cellular companies and the other appointee shall
37   represent personal communications services companies.
38     Sec. 12.  Section 34A.15, Code 1997, is amended by
39   adding the following new subsections:
40     NEW SUBSECTION.  2A. A member of the council shall
41   be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses
42   incurred in the performance of the member's duties, if
43   such member is not otherwise reimbursed for such
44   expenses.
45     Sec. 13.  Section 34A.20, subsection 2, Code 1997,
46   is amended to read as follows:
47     2.  The authority shall cooperate with the
48   department of public defense administrator in the
49   creation, administration, and funding of the E911
50   program established in subchapter I.

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 1     Sec. 14.  TRANSITION PROVISIONS.
 2     1.  The E911 administrator appointed pursuant to
 3   section 34A.2A, as enacted in this Act, shall be
 4   appointed by no later than July 1, 1998.  The E911
 5   administrator shall determine and implement an initial
 6   surcharge as soon as possible, but at a minimum such
 7   surcharge shall be determined and implemented by no
 8   later than January 1, 1999.
 9     2.  Notwithstanding the distribution formula in
10   section 34A.7A, as enacted in this Act, and prior to
11   any such distribution, of the initial surcharge moneys
12   received by the E911 administrator and deposited into
13   the wireless E911 emergency communications fund, for
14   the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1998, and ending
15   June 30, 1999, an amount shall be transferred to the
16   division of emergency management of the department of
17   public defense as necessary to reimburse the division
18   for amounts expended for the implementation, support,
19   and maintenance of the E911 administrator, including
20   the E911 administrator's salary.
21     3.  a.  Notwithstanding the distribution formula in
22   section 34A.7A, as enacted in this Act, and after the
23   distribution provided for in subsection 2 of this
24   section and prior to any other distribution pursuant

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