Senate Study Bill 1025 - Introduced SENATE/HOUSE FILE _____ BY (PROPOSED DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT BILL) A BILL FOR An Act relating to access to local exchange service 1 information. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 TLSB 1165DP (2) 86 ad/nh
S.F. _____ H.F. _____ Section 1. Section 34A.8, subsection 1, Code 2015, is 1 amended to read as follows: 2 1. A local exchange service provider shall furnish to the 3 E911 service provider, designated by the joint E911 service 4 board, all names, addresses, and telephone number information 5 concerning its subscribers which will be served by the E911 6 system and shall periodically update the local exchange service 7 information. The E911 service provider shall furnish this 8 data to the director for use in the mass notification and 9 emergency messaging system as defined in section 29C.2. The 10 local exchange service provider shall receive as compensation 11 for the provision of local exchange service information charges 12 according to its tariffs on file with and approved by the Iowa 13 utilities board. The tariff charges shall be the same whether 14 or not the local exchange service provider is designated as the 15 E911 service provider by the joint E911 service board. 16 Sec. 2. Section 34A.8, subsection 2, paragraph b, Code 2015, 17 is amended to read as follows: 18 b. The director, program manager, joint E911 service board, 19 local emergency management commission established pursuant to 20 section 29C.9, the designated E911 service provider, and the 21 public safety answering point, their agents, employees, and 22 assigns shall use local exchange service information provided 23 by the local exchange service provider solely for the purposes 24 of providing E911 emergency telephone service or providing 25 related 911 call alert mass notification and emergency 26 messaging services as described in section 29C.17A utilizing 27 only the subscriber’s information to a subscriber who consents 28 to the provision of such services , and it shall otherwise be 29 kept confidential. A person who violates this section is 30 guilty of a simple misdemeanor. 31 EXPLANATION 32 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 33 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 34 This bill requires an E911 service provider to provide 35 -1- LSB 1165DP (2) 86 ad/nh 1/ 2
S.F. _____ H.F. _____ names, addresses, and telephone number information concerning 1 its subscribers served by the E911 system to the director of 2 the department of homeland security and emergency management 3 to use in the mass notification and emergency messaging 4 system. The bill adds the director of the department of 5 homeland security and emergency management and local emergency 6 management commissions to the list of persons and entities that 7 must use this information solely for the purposes of providing 8 E911 emergency telephone service or providing mass notification 9 and emergency messaging services. The bill eliminates language 10 limiting use of this subscriber information to information 11 about a subscriber that consents to the services. Current 12 law provides that this information is confidential and that a 13 violation of such provisions is a simple misdemeanor. 14 The bill replaces the term “911 call alert” with “mass 15 notification and emergency messaging services”. 16 -2- LSB 1165DP (2) 86 ad/nh 2/ 2