12-5309. Enhanced 911 task force.
12-5309
12-5309. Enhanced 911 task force.
(a) There is hereby established an enhanced 911 task force
which shall develop a strategy
for funding and deploying wireless emergency telephone services. Such plan
shall include
suggestions for future action by the legislature with respect to deploying
efficient and economical
enhanced 911 services and implementing equitable and adequate means to fund
such services.
Specifically, the task force shall make recommendations and propose
legislation, if appropriate,
concerning the following: (1) The mechanism for administering wireless 911
service, with a focus
on whether such service shall be administered on a centralized basis; (2) the
possible formation of
an oversight board to address future technological, coordination and regulatory
issues related to
deployment of wireless emergency telephone service; (3) the fairness and
adequacy of the
mechanism for funding such service; (4) the method, if any, for recovering
costs incurred by public
safety answering points and by wireless telecommunications service providers in
providing
emergency telephone service; and (5) any other issues the task force deems
relevant to the
deployment of emergency telephone service.
(b) The task force shall consist of 14 members. Two members shall be
representatives of wireless
telecommunications carriers to be appointed by the governor. The remainder of
the task force shall be appointed as follows: One
member representing a local exchange carrier
other than a rural telephone company and one member representing a rural
telephone company who shall
be recommended by the Kansas telecommunications industry association. Two
members shall be
recommended by the Kansas association of counties and two members shall be
recommended by the
league of Kansas municipalities. One member shall be a person with a
communication disability
recommended by the Kansas commission for the deaf and hard of hearing. One
member shall be
recommended by the Kansas emergency medical services board. One member
shall be
recommended by the Kansas association of fire chiefs. One member shall be
recommended by the Kansas association of chiefs of police. The names of the
recommended members
shall be transmitted to the governor for final
approval. No such recommended
member shall serve unless approved by the governor. The remaining members of
the
task force shall include: The superintendent of the
highway patrol or the
superintendent's designee; the chair of the state corporation commission or the
chair's designee. The
governor shall designate one member as chair of the task force. All meetings
shall be on call of the
chair.
All task force members shall
serve without
compensation.
(c) The task force shall report its findings and conclusion to the house
committee on utilities and the
senate committee on commerce during the first week of the 2001 legislative
session.
The state corporation commission shall provide
staff support to the task force as necessary. Such staff shall
prepare the report and any legislation
recommended
by the task force.
(d) The task force shall be and is hereby abolished on July 1, 2001.
History: L. 2000, ch. 128, § 1; Apr. 27.