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    CHAPTER 1103STATEWIDE INTEROPERABLE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM FUNDING AND E911 EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION FUND EXPENDITURESS.F. 2326AN ACT relating to the funding of the statewide interoperable communications system and the expenditure of moneys from the E911 emergency communications fund.Be It Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa:   Section 1.   Section 29C.23, Code 2016, is amended to read as follows:   29C.23  Iowa radio interoperability platform Statewide interoperable communications system.   1.  The Iowa radio interoperability platform statewide interoperable communications system 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.   2.  The treasurer of state is authorized to enter into a financing agreement in accordance with the provisions of section 12.28 for the purpose of building the statewide interoperable communications system.   Sec. 2.   Section 34A.7A, subsection 2, Code 2016, is amended by adding the following new paragraph:   NEW PARAGRAPH.  0f.  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.   Sec. 3.   Section 34A.7A, subsection 2, paragraph f, Code 2016, is amended to read as follows:   f.  If moneys remain in the fund after fully paying all obligations under paragraphs “a”, “b”, “c”, “d”, and “e”, and “0f”, the remainder may be accumulated in the fund as a carryover operating surplus. 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.   Sec. 4.   CODE EDITOR DIRECTIVE.  If 2016 Iowa Acts, House File 2439Chapter 1100 herein and this Act, if enacted, amend section 34A.7A, subsection 2, by adding new lettered paragraphs before section 34A.7A, subsection 2, paragraph “f”, the Code editor shall, if possible, harmonize the amendments in those two Acts to section 34A.7A, subsection 2, paragraph “f”, to modify the references to the lettered paragraphs codified in that subsection 2 before that paragraph “f”, so that the references also refer to both new lettered paragraphs added by those two Acts.Approved May 11, 2016