Full Text of HB4990 96th General Assembly
HB4990 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010 HB4990
Introduced 1/21/2010, by Rep. Mike Bost SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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Amends the Universal Telephone Service Protection Law of 1985 in the Public Utilities Act. Provides that provisions concerning the authority to serve as a 9-1-1 system provider do not apply to a not-for-profit entity that is involved in a regional pilot project to implement Next Generation 9-1-1 based on the Research and Innovative Technology Administration in the United States Department of Transportation. Effective immediately.
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HB4990 |
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| AN ACT concerning utilities.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by changing | 5 |
| Section 13-900 as follows: | 6 |
| (220 ILCS 5/13-900) | 7 |
| (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2010) | 8 |
| Sec. 13-900. Authority to serve as 9-1-1 system provider; | 9 |
| rules. | 10 |
| (a) The General Assembly finds that it is necessary to | 11 |
| require the certification of 9-1-1 system providers to ensure | 12 |
| the safety of the lives and property of Illinoisans and | 13 |
| Illinois businesses, and to otherwise protect and promote the | 14 |
| public safety, health, and welfare of the citizens of this | 15 |
| State and their property. | 16 |
| (b) For purposes of this Section: | 17 |
| "9-1-1 system" has the same meaning as that term is | 18 |
| defined in Section 2.19 of the Emergency Telephone System | 19 |
| Act. | 20 |
| "9-1-1 system provider" means any person, corporation, | 21 |
| limited liability company, partnership, sole | 22 |
| proprietorship, or entity of any description whatever that | 23 |
| acts as a system provider within the meaning of Section |
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| 2.18 of the Emergency Telephone System Act. | 2 |
| "Emergency Telephone System Board" has the same | 3 |
| meaning as that term is defined in Sections 2.11 and 15.4 | 4 |
| of the Emergency Telephone System Act. | 5 |
| "Public safety agency personnel" means personnel | 6 |
| employed by a public safety agency, as that term is defined | 7 |
| in Section 2.02 of the Emergency Telephone System Act, | 8 |
| whose responsibilities include responding to requests for | 9 |
| emergency services. | 10 |
| (c) Except as otherwise provided in this Section, beginning | 11 |
| July 1, 2010, it is unlawful for any 9-1-1 system provider to | 12 |
| offer or provide or seek to offer or provide to any emergency | 13 |
| telephone system board or 9-1-1 system, or agent, | 14 |
| representative, or designee thereof, any network and database | 15 |
| service used or intended to be used by any emergency telephone | 16 |
| system board or 9-1-1 system for the purpose of answering, | 17 |
| transferring, or relaying requests for emergency services, or | 18 |
| dispatching public safety agency personnel in response to | 19 |
| requests for emergency services, unless the 9-1-1 system | 20 |
| provider has applied for and received a Certificate of 9-1-1 | 21 |
| System Provider Authority from the Commission. The Commission | 22 |
| shall approve an application for a Certificate of 9-1-1 System | 23 |
| Provider Authority upon a showing by the applicant, and a | 24 |
| finding by the Commission, after notice and hearing, that the | 25 |
| applicant possesses sufficient technical, financial, and | 26 |
| managerial resources and abilities to provide network service |
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| and database services that it seeks authority to provide in its | 2 |
| application for service authority, in a safe, continuous, and | 3 |
| uninterrupted manner. | 4 |
| (d) No incumbent local exchange carrier that provides, as | 5 |
| of the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th | 6 |
| General Assembly, any 9-1-1 network and 9-1-1 database service | 7 |
| used or intended to be used by any Emergency Telephone System | 8 |
| Board or 9-1-1 system, shall be required to obtain a | 9 |
| Certificate of 9-1-1 System Provider Authority under this | 10 |
| Section. No entity that possesses, as of the effective date of | 11 |
| this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, a Certificate | 12 |
| of Service Authority and provides 9-1-1 network and 9-1-1 | 13 |
| database services to any incumbent local exchange carrier as of | 14 |
| the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General | 15 |
| Assembly shall be required to obtain a Certificate of 9-1-1 | 16 |
| System Provider Authority under this Section. | 17 |
| (e) Any and all enforcement authority granted to the | 18 |
| Commission under this Section shall apply exclusively to 9-1-1 | 19 |
| system providers granted a Certificate of Service Authority | 20 |
| under this Section and shall not apply to incumbent local | 21 |
| exchange carriers that are providing 9-1-1 service as of the | 22 |
| effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General | 23 |
| Assembly. | 24 |
| (f) This Section does not apply to a not-for-profit entity | 25 |
| that is involved in a regional pilot project to implement Next | 26 |
| Generation 9-1-1 based on the Research and Innovative |
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| Technology Administration in the United States Department of | 2 |
| Transportation.
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| (Source: P.A. 96-25, eff. 6-30-09.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 5 |
| becoming law.
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