SB2163sam001 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Sen. William R. Haine

Filed: 3/10/2008

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2163

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2163 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The Emergency Telephone System Act is amended by adding Section 15.7 as follows:

(50 ILCS 750/15.7 new)

Sec. 15.7. Compliance with certification of 9-1-1 system providers by the Illinois Commerce Commission. In addition to the requirements of this Section, all 9-1-1 system providers must comply with the requirements of Section 13-900 of the Public Utilities Act.

Section 10. The Public Utilities Act is amended by adding Section 13-900 as follows:

(220 ILCS 5/13-900 new)

(Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2009)

Sec. 13-900. Authority to serve as 9-1-1 system provider; rules.

(a) The General Assembly finds that it is necessary to require the certification of 9-1-1 system providers to ensure the safety of the lives and property of Illinoisans and Illinois businesses, and to otherwise protect and promote the public safety, health, and welfare of the citizens of this State and their property.

(b) For purposes of this Section:

"9-1-1 system" has the same meaning as that term is defined in Section 2.19 of the Emergency Telephone System Act.

"9-1-1 system provider" means any person, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, sole proprietorship, or entity of any description whatever that acts as a system provider within the meaning of Section 2.18 of the Emergency Telephone System Act.

"Emergency Telephone System Board" has the same meaning as that term is defined in Sections 2.11 and 15.4 of the Emergency Telephone System Act.

"Public safety agency personnel" means personnel employed by a public safety agency, as that term is defined in Section 2.02 of the Emergency Telephone System Act, whose responsibilities include responding to requests for emergency services.

(c) Except as otherwise provided in this Section, beginning July 1, 2009, it is unlawful for any 9-1-1 system provider to offer or provide or seek to offer or provide to any emergency telephone system board or 9-1-1 system, or agent, representative, or designee thereof, any network or database service used or intended to be used by any emergency telephone system board or 9-1-1 system for the purpose of answering, transferring, or relaying requests for emergency services, or dispatching public safety agency personnel in response to requests for emergency services, unless the 9-1-1 system provider has applied for and received a Certificate of 9-1-1 System Provider Authority from the Commission. The Commission shall approve an application for a Certificate of 9-1-1 System Provider Authority upon a showing by the applicant, and a finding by the Commission, after notice and hearing, that the applicant possesses sufficient technical, financial, and managerial resources and abilities to provide network service and database services that it seeks authority to provide in its application for service authority, in a safe, continuous, and uninterrupted manner.

(d) No incumbent local exchange carrier that provides, as of the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly, any 9-1-1 network or 9-1-1 database service used or intended to be used by any Emergency Telephone System Board or 9-1-1 system, shall be required to obtain a Certificate of 9-1-1 System Provider Authority under this Section. No entity that possesses, as of the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly, a Certificate of Service Authority and provides 9-1-1 network or 9-1-1 database services to any incumbent local exchange carrier as of the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly shall be required to obtain a Certificate of 9-1-1 System Provider Authority under this Section.

(e) Any and all enforcement authority granted to the Commission under this Section over any Certificate of Service Authority shall apply equally and without limitation to a Certificate of 9-1-1 System Provider Authority; provided, however, that the enforcement authority granted to the Commission under this Section shall apply exclusively to 9-1-1 system providers, and to incumbent local exchange carriers only to the extent the local exchange carriers act as 9-1-1 system providers.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.".