Senate File 2155 - Reprinted SENATE FILE 2155 BY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS (SUCCESSOR TO SSB 3106) (As Amended and Passed by the Senate February 24, 2016 ) A BILL FOR An Act creating a statewide land mobile radio communications 1 system fund, making an appropriation, and including 2 effective date provisions. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 SF 2155 (3) 86 rn/rj/jh
S.F. 2155 Section 1. NEW SECTION . 80.29A Statewide land mobile radio 1 communications system fund. 2 1. A statewide land mobile radio communications system 3 fund is created in the state treasury under the control 4 of the department. Moneys in the fund are appropriated 5 to the department for purposes of establishing a statewide 6 land mobile radio communications system to be administered 7 by the department in coordination with the department of 8 transportation. 9 2. Notwithstanding section 12C.7, subsection 2, interest 10 or earnings on moneys in the fund shall be credited to the 11 fund and shall be used for costs associated with construction 12 of the statewide land mobile radio communications system. 13 Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys credited to the fund that 14 remain unexpended or unobligated at the end of a fiscal year 15 through the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2021, and ending June 16 30, 2022, shall not revert to any other fund. 17 Sec. 2. STATEWIDE LAND MOBILE RADIO COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM 18 APPROPRIATION. There is appropriated from the general fund 19 of the state for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2015, and 20 ending June 30, 2016, the following amount, or so much thereof 21 as is necessary, to be used for the purposes designated: 22 1. For deposit in the statewide land mobile radio 23 communications system fund created in section 80.29A: 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 20,371,298 25 2. The Iowa telecommunications and technology commission 26 shall collaborate with the department of public safety 27 regarding the deployment of the statewide land mobile radio 28 communications system network and the ongoing operations of 29 the network. The commission, as required by the department, 30 shall provide project management regarding the technical 31 network deployment and ongoing network operations, including 32 the procurement of any vendor services or equipment necessary 33 for the technical network deployment and ongoing operations. 34 The department of public safety, in conjunction with the 35 -1- SF 2155 (3) 86 rn/rj/jh 1/ 2
S.F. 2155 state department of transportation, shall at all times retain 1 overall responsibility for the statewide land mobile radio 2 communications system network and primary responsibility for 3 the operational policy of the network. 4 Sec. 3. EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT. This Act, being deemed of 5 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment. 6 -2- SF 2155 (3) 86 rn/rj/jh 2/ 2