12-5309.   Enhanced 911 task force.(a) There is hereby established an enhanced 911 task forcewhich shall develop a strategyfor funding and deploying wireless emergency telephone services. Such planshall includesuggestions for future action by the legislature with respect to deployingefficient and economicalenhanced 911 services and implementing equitable and adequate means to fundsuch services.Specifically, the task force shall make recommendations and proposelegislation, if appropriate,concerning the following: (1) The mechanism for administering wireless 911service, with a focuson whether such service shall be administered on a centralized basis; (2) thepossible formation ofan oversight board to address future technological, coordination and regulatoryissues related todeployment of wireless emergency telephone service; (3) the fairness andadequacy of themechanism for funding such service; (4) the method, if any, for recoveringcosts incurred by publicsafety answering points and by wireless telecommunications service providers inprovidingemergency telephone service; and (5) any other issues the task force deemsrelevant to thedeployment of emergency telephone service.

      (b)   The task force shall consist of 14 members. Two members shall berepresentatives of wirelesstelecommunications carriers to be appointed by the governor. The remainder ofthe task force shall be appointed as follows: Onemember representing a local exchange carrierother than a rural telephone company and one member representing a ruraltelephone company who shallbe recommended by the Kansas telecommunications industry association. Twomembers shall berecommended by the Kansas association of counties and two members shall berecommended by theleague of Kansas municipalities. One member shall be a person with acommunication disabilityrecommended by the Kansas commission for the deaf and hard of hearing. Onemember shall berecommended by the Kansas emergency medical services board. One membershall berecommended by the Kansas association of fire chiefs. One member shall berecommended by the Kansas association of chiefs of police. The names of therecommended membersshall be transmitted to the governor for finalapproval. No such recommendedmember shall serve unless approved by the governor. The remaining members ofthetask force shall include: The superintendent of thehighway patrol or thesuperintendent's designee; the chair of the state corporation commission or thechair's designee. Thegovernor shall designate one member as chair of the task force. All meetingsshall be on call of thechair.All task force members shallserve withoutcompensation.

      (c)   The task force shall report its findings and conclusion to the housecommittee on utilities and thesenate committee on commerce during the first week of the 2001 legislativesession.The state corporation commission shall providestaff support to the task force as necessary. Such staff shallprepare the report and any legislationrecommendedby 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.