HF 651 (LSB 1928HZ (3) 86)

HOUSE FILE 651

BY  COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

(SUCCESSOR TO HF 560)
(SUCCESSOR TO HF 199)

(As Amended and Passed by the House 2015-05-05)

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to expenditures of moneys from the E911 emergency communications fund, other duties of the department of homeland security and emergency management, and other properly related matters.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  29C.23  Statewide land mobile radio communications system.
   1.  The department, in coordination with the department of public safety and the department of transportation, shall reimburse the provider, as defined in section 34A.2, on a calendar quarterly basis, for actual annual lease costs associated with the operation of a statewide land mobile radio communications system that interfaces with the Iowa interoperability radio platform. The department of administrative services shall select the provider in accordance with section 8A.311.
   2.  All public safety answering points may access the statewide land mobile radio communications system without any additional charge to the individual public safety answering point.
   3.  The Iowa radio interoperability platform shall be under the joint purview of the department of public safety and the department of transportation. The departments shall jointly submit a biannual report to the Iowa statewide interoperable communications system board beginning July 1, 2016.
    Sec. 2.  Section 34A.7A, subsection 2, Code 2015, is amended by adding the following new paragraphs:
   NEW PARAGRAPH.  0b.  (1)  The program manager shall allocate to each joint E911 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 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 “0b” shall be fifty-three 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 calls taken at the public safety answering point in the service area to the total number of wireless E911 calls originating in this state.
   (c)  Notwithstanding subparagraph divisions (a) and (b), the minimum amount allocated to each joint E911 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 service board.
   (3)  The funds allocated in this paragraph “0b” shall be used for communication equipment utilized for the receipt and disposition of 911 calls.
   NEW PARAGRAPH.  00b.  The program manager shall allocate moneys pursuant to this paragraph each calendar quarter to joint E911 service boards with public safety answering points within the boards’ E911 service areas that enter into agreements to consolidate and to the department of public safety for such public safety answering points. A public safety answering point subject to such an agreement to consolidate shall receive the allocation that the public safety answering point would have received individually pursuant to paragraph “0b” and an additional twenty-five percent of the amount the public safety answering point would have received pursuant to paragraph “0b”. A public safety answering point subject to such an agreement to consolidate shall receive moneys pursuant to the allocation in this paragraph at the beginning of the fiscal year following the date of the agreement for a period of three years.
    Sec. 3.  Section 34A.7A, subsection 2, paragraph b, Code 2015, is amended to read as follows:
   b.  For the three-year period beginning From July 1, 2013, and ending June 30, 2016 until June 30, 2026, the program manager shall allocate thirteen 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.
    Sec. 4.  Section 34A.7A, subsection 2, paragraph e, Code 2015, is amended by striking the paragraph.
    Sec. 5.  Section 34A.7A, subsection 2, paragraph f, Code 2015, is amended to read as follows:
   f.  If moneys remain in the fund after fully paying all obligations under paragraphs “a”, “0b”, “00b”, “b”, “c”, and “d”, and “e”, the remainder may be accumulated in the fund as a carryover operating surplus. This The program manager, in consultation with the E911 communications council, shall allocate an amount, not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars per fiscal year, for development of public awareness and educational programs related to the use of 911 by the public, educational programs for personnel responsible for the maintenance, operation, and upgrading of local E911 systems, and the expenses of members of the E911 communications council for travel, monthly meetings, and training. The remaining surplus shall be used to fund future network and public safety answering point improvements for the receipt and disposition of 911 calls, including hardware and software for an internet protocol-enabled next generation network, and wireless carriers’ transport costs related to wireless E911 services, if those costs are not otherwise recovered by wireless carriers through customer billing or other sources and approved by the program manager in consultation with the E911 communications council. Notwithstanding section 8.33, any moneys remaining in the fund at the end of each fiscal year shall not revert to the general fund of the state but shall remain available for the purposes of the fund.