Senate File 500 - Enrolled Senate File 500 AN ACT RELATING TO 911 EMERGENCY TELEPHONE AND INTERNET COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND MAKING APPROPRIATIONS. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: Section 1. Section 29C.2, subsection 6, Code 2017, is amended to read as follows: 6. “Local emergency management agency” means a countywide joint county-municipal public safety agency organized to administer this chapter under the authority of a commission. Sec. 2. Section 34A.1, Code 2017, is amended to read as follows: 34A.1 Purpose. The general assembly finds that enhanced 911 emergency telephone communication systems and other emergency 911 notification devices further the public interest and protect the health, safety, and welfare of the people of Iowa. The purpose of this chapter is to enable the orderly development, installation, and operation of enhanced 911 emergency telephone communication systems and other emergency 911 notification devices statewide. These systems are to be operated under governmental management and control for the public benefit.

Senate File 500, p. 2 Sec. 3. Section 34A.2, Code 2017, is amended to read as follows: 34A.2 Definitions. As used in this chapter , unless the context otherwise requires: 1. “911 service area” means the geographic area encompassing at least one entire county, and which may encompass a geographical area outside the one entire county not restricted to county boundaries, serviced or to be serviced under a 911 service plan. 2. “911 service plan” means a plan that includes the following information: a. A description of the 911 service area. b. A list of all public and private safety agencies within the 911 service area. c. The number of public safety answering points within the 911 service area. d. Identification of the agency responsible for management and supervision of the 911 emergency communication system. e. (1) A statement of estimated costs to be incurred by the joint 911 service board or the department of public safety, including separate estimates of the following: (a) Nonrecurring costs, including but not limited to public safety answering points, network equipment, software, database, addressing, training, and other capital expenditures, including the purchase or lease of subscriber names, addresses, and telephone information from the local exchange service provider. (b) Recurring costs, including but not limited to network access fees and other telephone charges, software, equipment, and database management, and maintenance, including the purchase or lease of subscriber names, addresses, and telephone information from the local exchange service provider. Recurring costs shall not include personnel costs for a public safety answering point. (2) Funds deposited in a 911 service fund are appropriated and shall be used for the payment of costs that are limited to nonrecurring and recurring costs directly attributable to the receipt and disposition of the 911 call. Costs do not include expenditures for any other purpose, and specifically exclude

Senate File 500, p. 3 costs attributable to other emergency services or expenditures for buildings or personnel, except for the costs of personnel for database management and personnel directly associated with addressing. f. Current equipment operated by affected local exchange service providers, and central office equipment and technology upgrades necessary for the provider to implement 911 service within the 911 service area. g. A schedule for implementation of the plan throughout the 911 service area. The schedule may provide for phased implementation. h. The number of telephone access lines and voice over internet protocol service connections capable of access to 911 in the 911 service area. i. The total property valuation in the 911 service area. j. A plan to migrate to a next generation 911 network. 1. 3. “Access line” means an exchange access line that has the ability to access dial tone and reach a public safety answering point. 2. 4. “Communications service” means a service capable of accessing, connecting with, or interfacing with a 911 system by dialing, initializing, or otherwise activating the system exclusively through the digits 911 by means of a local telephone device , or wireless communications device , or any other device capable of interfacing with the 911 system . 3. “Communications service provider” means a service provider, public or private, that transports information electronically via landline, wireless, internet, cable, or satellite. 4. 5. “Competitive local exchange service provider” means the same as defined in section 476.96 . 5. 6. “Director” means the director of the department of homeland security and emergency management. 6. 7. “Emergency communications service surcharge” means a charge established by the program manager in accordance with section 34A.7A . 8. “Emergency services internet protocol network” or “ESInet” means a system using broadband packet-switched technology that is capable of supporting the transmission of varying types of

Senate File 500, p. 4 data to be shared by all public or private safety agencies that are involved in an emergency. 7. 9. “Enhanced 911” or “E911” means a service that provides the user of a communications service with the ability to reach a public safety answering point by using the digits 911, and that has the following additional features: a. Routes an incoming 911 call to the appropriate public safety answering point. b. Automatically provides voice, displays the name, address or location, and telephone number of an incoming 911 call and public safety agency servicing the location. 8. “Enhanced 911 service area” means the geographic area to be serviced, or currently serviced under an enhanced 911 service plan, provided that an enhanced 911 service area must at minimum encompass one entire county. The enhanced 911 service area may encompass more than one county, and need not be restricted to county boundaries. 9. “Enhanced 911 service plan” means a plan that includes the following information: a. A description of the enhanced 911 service area. b. A list of all public and private safety agencies within the enhanced 911 service area. c. The number of public safety answering points within the enhanced 911 service area. d. Identification of the agency responsible for management and supervision of the enhanced 911 emergency communication system. e. (1) A statement of estimated costs to be incurred by the joint E911 service board or the department of public safety, including separate estimates of the following: (a) Nonrecurring costs, including but not limited to public safety answering points, network equipment, software, database, addressing, training, and other capital expenditures, including the purchase or lease of subscriber names, addresses, and telephone information from the local exchange service provider. (b) Recurring costs, including but not limited to network access fees and other telephone charges, software, equipment, and database management, and maintenance, including the purchase or lease of subscriber names, addresses, and

Senate File 500, p. 5 telephone information from the local exchange service provider. Recurring costs shall not include personnel costs for a public safety answering point. (2) Funds deposited in an E911 service fund are appropriated and shall be used for the payment of costs that are limited to nonrecurring and recurring costs directly attributable to the receipt and disposition of the 911 call. Costs do not include expenditures for any other purpose, and specifically exclude costs attributable to other emergency services or expenditures for buildings or personnel, except for the costs of personnel for database management and personnel directly associated with addressing. f. Current equipment operated by affected local exchange service providers, and central office equipment and technology upgrades necessary for the provider to implement enhanced 911 service within the enhanced 911 service area. g. A schedule for implementation of the plan throughout the E911 service area. The schedule may provide for phased implementation. h. The number of telephone access lines capable of access to 911 in the enhanced 911 service area. i. The total property valuation in the enhanced 911 service area. j. A plan to migrate to an internet protocol-enabled next generation network. 10. “Geographic information system” or “GIS” means a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present spatial or geographical data. 10. 11. “Local exchange carrier” means the same as defined in section 476.96 . 11. 12. “Local exchange service provider” means a vendor engaged in providing telecommunications service between points within an exchange and includes but is not limited to a competitive local exchange service provider and a local exchange carrier. 13. “Next generation 911 network” means an internet protocol-enabled system that enables the public to transmit digital information to public safety answering points and replaces enhanced 911, and that includes ESInet, GIS,

Senate File 500, p. 6 cybersecurity, and other system components. 14. “Originating service provider” means a communications provider that allows its users or subscribers to originate 911 voice or non-voice messages from the public to public safety answering points, including but not limited to wireline, wireless, and voice over internet protocol services. 12. 15. “Prepaid wireless telecommunications service” means a wireless communications service that provides the right to utilize mobile wireless service as well as other nontelecommunications services, including the download of digital products delivered electronically, content and ancillary services, which must be paid for in advance and that is sold in predetermined units or dollars of which the amount declines with use in a known amount. 13. 16. “Program manager” means the E911 911 program manager appointed pursuant to section 34A.2A . 14. 17. “Provider” means a vendor who provides, or offers to provide, E911 911 equipment, installation, maintenance, or exchange access services within the enhanced 911 service area. 15. 18. “Public or private safety agency” means a unit of state or local government, a local emergency management agency as defined in section 29C.2, a special purpose district, or a private firm which provides or has the authority to provide fire fighting, police, ambulance, or emergency medical services, or hazardous materials response. 16. 19. “Public safety answering point” means a twenty-four-hour public safety communications facility that receives enhanced 911 service calls and directly dispatches emergency response services or relays calls to the appropriate public or private safety agency. 20. “Voice over internet protocol service” means a service to which all of the following apply: a. The service provides real-time two-way voice communications transmitted using internet protocol, and a successor protocol. b. The service is offered to the public, or such classes of users as to be effectively available to the public. c. The service has the capability to originate traffic to, and terminate traffic from, the public switched telephone

Senate File 500, p. 7 network or a successor network. 17. 21. “Wireless communications service” means commercial mobile radio service. “Wireless communications service” includes any wireless two-way communications used in cellular telephone service, personal communications service, or the functional or competitive equivalent of a radio-telephone communications line used in cellular telephone service, a personal communications service, or a network access line. “Wireless communications service” does not include a service whose customers do not have access to 911 or 911-like service, a communications channel utilized only for data transmission, or a private telecommunications system. 18. 22. “Wireless communications service provider” means a company that offers wireless communications service to users of wireless devices including but not limited to cellular, personal communications services, mobile satellite services, and enhanced specialized mobile radio. 19. 23. “Wireless E911 phase 1” means a 911 call made from a wireless device in which the wireless communications service provider delivers the call-back number and address of the tower that received the call to the appropriate public safety answering point. 20. 24. “Wireless E911 phase 2” means a 911 call made from a wireless device in which the wireless communications service provider delivers the call-back number and the latitude and longitude coordinates of the wireless device to the appropriate public safety answering point. 21. 25. “Wire-line E911 911 service surcharge” means a charge set by the E911 911 service area operating authority and assessed on each wire-line access line which physically terminates within the E911 911 service area in accordance with section 34A.7 . Sec. 4. Section 34A.2A, subsections 1 and 2, Code 2017, are amended to read as follows: 1. The director of the department of homeland security and emergency management shall appoint an E911 a 911 program manager to administer this chapter . 2. The E911 911 program manager shall act under the supervisory control of the director of the department of

Senate File 500, p. 8 homeland security and emergency management, and in consultation with the E911 911 communications council, and shall perform the duties specifically set forth in this chapter and as assigned by the director. Sec. 5. Section 34A.3, Code 2017, is amended to read as follows: 34A.3 Joint E911 911 service board —— 911 service plan —— implementation —— waivers. 1. Joint E911 911 service boards —— plans. a. The board of supervisors of each county shall maintain a joint E911 911 service board. (1) Each political subdivision of the state having a public safety agency serving territory within the county and each local emergency management agency as defined in section 29C.2 operating within the area is entitled to voting membership on the joint E911 911 service board. For the purposes of this section , a township that operates a volunteer fire department providing fire protection services to the township, or a city which provides fire protection services through the operation of a volunteer fire department not financed through city government, shall be considered a political subdivision of the state having a public safety agency serving territory within the county. Each private safety agency operating within the area is entitled to nonvoting membership on the board. (2) A township that does not operate its own public safety agency, but contracts for the provision of public safety services, is not entitled to membership on the joint E911 911 service board, but its contractor is entitled to membership according to the contractor’s status as a public or private safety agency. b. The joint E911 911 service board shall maintain an enhanced a 911 service plan encompassing at minimum the entire county, unless an exemption is granted by the program manager permitting a smaller E911 911 service area. (1) The program manager may grant a discretionary exemption from the single county minimum service area requirement based upon a joint E911 911 service board’s or other E911 911 service plan operating authority’s presentation of evidence which supports the requested exemption if the program manager finds

Senate File 500, p. 9 that local conditions make adherence to the minimum standard unreasonable or technically infeasible and that the purposes of this chapter would be furthered by granting an exemption. The minimum size requirement is intended to prevent unnecessary duplication of public safety answering points and minimize other administrative, personnel, and equipment expenses. (2) The program manager may order the inclusion of a specific territory in an adjoining E911 911 service plan area to avoid the creation by exclusion of a territory smaller than a single county not serviced by surrounding E911 911 service plan areas upon request of the joint E911 911 service board representing the territory. c. The E911 911 service plan operating authority shall submit proposed changes to the plan to all of the following: (1) The program manager. (2) Public and private safety agencies in the enhanced 911 service area. (3) Local exchange service providers affected by the enhanced 911 service plan. 2. Compliance waivers available in limited circumstances. a. The program manager may extend the time period for plan implementation by issuing a compliance waiver. b. The compliance waiver shall be based upon a joint E911 911 service board’s presentation of evidence which supports an extension if the program manager finds that local conditions make implementation financially unreasonable or technically infeasible by the originally scheduled plan of implementation. c. The compliance waiver shall be for a set period of time, and subject to review and renewal or denial of renewal upon its expiration. d. The waiver may cover all or a portion of a 911 service plan’s enhanced 911 service area to facilitate phased implementation when possible. e. The granting of a compliance waiver does not create a presumption that the identical or similar waiver will be extended in the future. f. Consideration of compliance waivers shall be on a case-by-case basis. 3. Chapter 28E agreement —— alternative to joint E911 911

Senate File 500, p. 10 service board. a. A legal entity created pursuant to chapter 28E by a county or counties, other political divisions, and public or private agencies to jointly plan, implement, and operate a countywide, or larger, enhanced 911 service system may be substituted for the joint E911 911 service board required under subsection 1 . An alternative legal entity created pursuant to chapter 28E as a substitute for a joint E911 911 service board, as permitted by this subsection , may be created by either: (1) Agreement of the parties entitled to voting membership on a joint E911 911 service board. (2) Agreement of the members of a joint E911 911 service board. b. An alternative chapter 28E entity has all of the powers of a joint E911 911 service board and any additional powers granted by the agreement. As used in this chapter , “joint E911 911 service board” includes an alternative chapter 28E entity created for that purpose, except as specifically limited by the chapter 28E agreement or unless clearly provided otherwise in this chapter . A chapter 28E agreement related to E911 911 service shall permit the participation of a private safety agency or other persons allowed to participate in a joint E911 911 service board, but the terms, scope, and conditions of participation are subject to the chapter 28E agreement. 4. Participation in joint E911 911 service board required. A political subdivision having a public or private safety agency within its territory or jurisdiction shall participate in a joint E911 911 service board and cooperate in maintaining the E911 911 service plan. Sec. 6. Section 34A.4, Code 2017, is amended to read as follows: 34A.4 Requirements of pay telephones and other telecommunications devices to allow 911 calls without depositing coins or other charge. In an enhanced a 911 service area, a person shall not install or offer for use within the enhanced 911 service area a pay station telephone or other fixed device unless the telephone or device is capable of making a 911 call without prior insertion of a coin or payment of any other charge, and unless the

Senate File 500, p. 11 telephone or device displays notice of free 911 service. Sec. 7. Section 34A.5, Code 2017, is amended to read as follows: 34A.5 Private listing subscribers and 911 service. Private listing subscribers in an enhanced a 911 service area waive the privacy afforded by nonlisted or nonpublished numbers to the extent that the name and address associated with the telephone number may be furnished to the enhanced 911 service system, for all routing, for automatic retrieval of location information, and for associated emergency services. Sec. 8. Section 34A.7, Code 2017, is amended to read as follows: 34A.7 Funding —— wire-line E911 911 service surcharge. When an E911 a 911 service plan is implemented, the costs of providing E911 911 service within an E911 a 911 service area are the responsibility of the joint E911 911 service board and the member political subdivisions. Costs in excess of the amount raised by imposition of the E911 911 service surcharge provided for under subsection 1 shall be paid by the joint E911 911 service board from such revenue sources allocated among the member political subdivisions as determined by the joint E911 911 service board. Funding is not limited to the surcharge, and surcharge revenues may be supplemented by other permissible local and state revenue sources. A joint E911 911 service board shall not commit a political subdivision to appropriate property tax revenues to fund an E911 a 911 service plan without the consent of the political subdivision. A joint E911 911 service board may approve an E911 a 911 service plan, including a funding formula requiring appropriations by participating political subdivisions, subject to the approval of the funding formula by each political subdivision. However, a political subdivision may agree in advance to appropriate property tax revenues or other moneys according to a formula or plan developed by an alternative chapter 28E entity. 1. Local wire-line E911 911 service surcharge imposition. a. To encourage local implementation of E911 911 service, one source of funding for E911 911 emergency communication systems shall come from a surcharge per month, per access line on each access line subscriber, of one dollar.

Senate File 500, p. 12 b. The surcharge shall be imposed by order of the program manager as follows: (1) The program manager shall notify a local exchange service provider scheduled to provide exchange access line service to an E911 a 911 service area that implementation of an E911 a 911 service plan has been approved by the joint E911 911 service board and that collection of the surcharge is to begin within sixty days. (2) The program manager shall also provide notice to all affected public safety answering points. 2. Surcharge collected by local exchange service providers. a. The surcharge shall be collected as part of the access line service provider’s periodic billing to a subscriber. In compensation for the costs of billing and collection, the local exchange service provider may retain one percent of the gross surcharges collected. If the compensation is insufficient to fully recover a local exchange service provider’s costs for billing and collection of the surcharge, the deficiency shall be included in the local exchange service provider’s costs for ratemaking purposes to the extent it is reasonable and just under section 476.6 . The surcharge shall be remitted to the E911 911 service operating authority for deposit into the E911 911 service fund quarterly by the local exchange service provider. The total amount for multiple exchanges may be combined. b. A local exchange service provider is not liable for an uncollected surcharge for which the local exchange service provider has billed a subscriber but not been paid. The surcharge shall appear as a single line item on a subscriber’s periodic billing entitled, “E911 “911 emergency communications service surcharge”. c. The joint E911 911 service board may request, not more than once each quarter, the following information from the local exchange service provider: (1) The identity of the exchange from which the surcharge is collected. (2) The number of lines to which the surcharge was applied for the quarter. (3) The number of refusals to pay per exchange if

Senate File 500, p. 13 applicable. (4) Write-offs applied per exchange if applicable. (5) The number of lines exempt per exchange. (6) The amount retained by the local exchange service provider generated from the one percent administration fee. d. Access line counts and surcharge remittances are confidential public records as provided in section 34A.8 . 3. Maximum limit per subscriber billing for surcharge. An individual subscriber shall not be required to pay on a single periodic billing the surcharge on more than one hundred access lines, or their equivalent, in an E911 a 911 service area. A subscriber shall pay the surcharge in each E911 911 service area in which the subscriber receives access line service. 4. E911 911 service fund. Each joint E911 911 service board shall establish and maintain as a separate account an E911 a 911 service fund. Any funds remaining in the account at the end of each fiscal year shall not revert to the general funds of the member political subdivisions, except as provided in subsection 5 , but shall remain in the E911 911 service fund. Moneys in an E911 a 911 service fund may only be used for nonrecurring and recurring costs of the E911 911 service plan as approved by the program manager, as those terms are defined by section 34A.2 . 5. Use of moneys in fund —— priority and limitations on expenditure. a. Moneys deposited in the E911 a 911 service fund shall be used for the repayment of any bonds issued for the benefit of or loan made to the joint E911 911 service board pursuant to sections 34A.20 through 34A.22 , and as long as any such bond or loan remains unpaid the surcharge shall not be reduced or eliminated. Moneys deposited in the fund shall be subject to such terms and conditions as may be contained in the relevant bond documents, trust indenture, resolution, loan agreement, or other instrument pursuant to which bonds are issued or a loan is made, without regard to any limitation otherwise provided by law. b. Moneys deposited in the E911 a 911 service fund shall be used for the following, in order of priority if paragraph “a” does not apply:

Senate File 500, p. 14 (1) Money shall first be spent for actual recurring costs of operating the E911 911 service plan. (2) If money remains in the fund after fully paying for recurring costs incurred in the preceding year, the remainder may be spent to pay for nonrecurring costs, not to exceed actual nonrecurring costs as approved by the program manager. (3) If money remains in the fund after fully paying obligations under subparagraphs (1) and (2), the remainder may be accumulated in the fund as a carryover operating surplus. 6. Limitation of actions —— provider not liable on cause of action related to provision of 911 services. A claim or cause of action does not exist based upon or arising out of an act or omission in connection with a land-line or wireless provider’s participation in an E911 a 911 service plan or provision of 911 or local exchange access service, unless the act or omission is determined to be willful and wanton negligence. Sec. 9. Section 34A.7A, Code 2017, is amended to read as follows: 34A.7A Emergency communications service surcharge —— fund established —— distribution and permissible expenditures. 1. a. The director shall adopt by rule a monthly surcharge of one dollar to be imposed on each communications originating service number provided in this state. The surcharge shall be imposed uniformly on a statewide basis and simultaneously on all communications originating service numbers as provided by rule of the director. The surcharge shall not be imposed on wire-line-based communications or prepaid wireless telecommunications service. b. The program manager shall provide no less than sixty days’ notice of the surcharge to be imposed to each communications originating service provider. c. (1) The surcharge shall be collected as part of the communications originating service provider’s periodic billing to a subscriber. The surcharge shall appear as a single line item on a subscriber’s periodic billing indicating that the surcharge is for E911 911 emergency communications service. (2) In compensation for the costs of billing and collection, the communications originating service provider may retain one percent of the gross surcharges collected.

Senate File 500, p. 15 (3) The surcharges shall be remitted quarterly by the communications originating service provider to the program manager for deposit into the fund established in subsection 2 . (4) A communications An originating service provider is not liable for an uncollected surcharge for which the communications originating service provider has billed a subscriber but which has not been paid. 2. Moneys collected pursuant to subsection 1 and section 34A.7B, subsection 2 , shall be deposited in a separate E911 911 emergency communications fund within the state treasury under the control of the program manager. Section 8.33 shall not apply to moneys in the fund. Moneys earned as income, including as interest, from the fund shall remain in the fund until expended as provided in this section . Moneys in the fund shall be expended and distributed in the following priority order: a. An amount as appropriated by the general assembly to the director shall be allocated to the director and program manager for implementation, support, and maintenance of the functions of the director and program manager and to employ the auditor of state to perform an annual audit of the E911 911 emergency communications fund. b. (1) The program manager shall allocate to each joint E911 911 service board and to the department of public safety a minimum of one thousand dollars per calendar quarter for each public safety answering point within the service area of the department of public safety or joint E911 911 service board that has submitted an annual written request to the program manager in a form approved by the program manager by May 15 of each year. (2) The amount allocated under this paragraph “b” shall be sixty percent of the total amount of surcharge generated per calendar quarter allocated as follows: (a) Sixty-five percent of the total dollars available for allocation shall be allocated in proportion to the square miles of the service area to the total square miles in this state. (b) Thirty-five percent of the total dollars available for allocation shall be allocated in proportion to the wireless E911 911 calls taken at the public safety answering point in

Senate File 500, p. 16 the service area to the total number of wireless E911 911 calls originating in this state. (c) Notwithstanding subparagraph divisions (a) and (b), the minimum amount allocated to each joint E911 911 service board and to the department of public safety shall be no less than one thousand dollars for each public safety answering point within the service area of the department of public safety or joint E911 911 service board. (3) The funds allocated in this paragraph “b” shall be used by the public safety answering points for the receipt and disposition of 911 calls. c. From July 1, 2013, until June 30, 2026, the program manager shall allocate ten percent of the total amount of surcharge generated to wireless carriers to recover their costs to deliver E911 phase 1 services. If the allocation in this paragraph is insufficient to reimburse all wireless carriers for such carrier’s eligible expenses, the program manager shall allocate a prorated amount to each wireless carrier equal to the percentage of such carrier’s eligible expenses as compared to the total of all eligible expenses for all wireless carriers for the calendar quarter during which such expenses were submitted. When prorated expenses are paid, the remaining unpaid expenses shall no longer be eligible for payment under this paragraph. d. (1) The program manager shall reimburse communications originating service providers on a calendar quarter basis for carriers’ eligible expenses for transport costs between the selective router and the public safety answering points related to the delivery of wireless E911 phase 1 services and the integration of an internet protocol-enabled the next generation 911 network. (2) The program manager may also provide grants to joint 911 service boards and the department of public safety for the purpose of developing and maintaining GIS data to be used in support of the next generation 911 network. e. The program manager shall reimburse wire-line carriers and third-party E911 911 automatic location information identification database providers on a calendar quarterly basis for the costs of maintaining and upgrading the E911 911

Senate File 500, p. 17 components and functionalities beyond the input to the E911 911 selective router, including the E911 911 selective router and the automatic location information identification database. f. The department of homeland security and emergency management may, in a reserve account established within the E911 911 emergency communications fund, credit each fiscal year an amount of up to twelve and one-half percent of the annual 911 emergency communications service surcharge collected pursuant to subsection 1 and the prepaid wireless E911 911 surcharge collected pursuant to section 34A.7B, subsection 2 . However, the moneys contained in such reserve account shall not exceed twelve and one-half percent of the total surcharges collected for each fiscal year. Moneys credited to the reserve account shall only be used by the department for the purpose of repairing or replacing equipment in the event of a catastrophic equipment failure, as determined by the director. g. The program manager shall allocate four million three hundred eighty-three thousand dollars to the department of public safety in the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2016, and ending June 30, 2017, for payments and other costs due under a financing agreement entered into by the treasurer of state for building the statewide interoperable communications system pursuant to section 29C.23, subsection 2 . h. g. (1) If moneys remain in the fund after fully paying all obligations under paragraphs “a” , “b” , “c” , “d” , “e” , and “f” , and “g” , an amount of up to four seven million four hundred thousand dollars shall, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2016 2017 , and ending June 30, 2017 2018 , be expended and distributed in the following priority order: (a) (i) The director, in consultation with the program manager and the E911 911 communications council, may provide grants to any public safety answering point agreeing to consolidate. For purposes of this subparagraph division, “consolidate” means the consolidation of all public safety answering point systems, functions, enhanced 911 service areas, and physical facilities of two or more public safety answering points, resulting in the consolidated public safety answering point being responsible for all call answering and dispatch functions for the combined enhanced 911 service area , or the