Full Text of SB0658 102nd General Assembly
SB0658ham001 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Rep. Elizabeth Hernandez Filed: 10/27/2021
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 658
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 658 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 5. The Emergency Telephone System Act is amended | 5 | | by changing Section 3 as follows:
| 6 | | (50 ILCS 750/3) (from Ch. 134, par. 33)
| 7 | | (Section scheduled to be repealed on December 31, 2023)
| 8 | | Sec. 3.
(a) By July 1, 2017, every local public agency | 9 | | shall be within the jurisdiction of a 9-1-1 system.
| 10 | | (b) Within 18 months of the awarding of a contract to a | 11 | | vendor certified under Section 13-900 of the Public Utilities | 12 | | Act to provide Next Generation 9-1-1 service, every 9-1-1 | 13 | | system in Illinois, except in a municipality with a population | 14 | | over 500,000, shall provide Next Generation 9-1-1 service. A | 15 | | municipality with a population over 500,000 shall provide Next | 16 | | Generation 9-1-1 service by December 31, 2023. |
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| 1 | | Notwithstanding any provision of the Illinois Municipal | 2 | | Code, a 9-1-1 vendor under Section 13-900 of the Public | 3 | | Utilities Act must give written notice to the municipality it | 4 | | has a contract with or for which it currently provides | 5 | | emergency services not less than 12 months prior to | 6 | | termination of services. If an emergency services contract is | 7 | | terminated, the provider may not increase the fees of any | 8 | | remaining contract by more than 3% of the fees from the | 9 | | previous year. A private sector company that terminates the | 10 | | emergency services contract prior to the natural expiration of | 11 | | the contract term and that seeks an increase in the annual | 12 | | contract value of more than 10% is barred from contracting | 13 | | with any units of local government or entities that receive | 14 | | funding for emergency services for a period of 5 years from the | 15 | | date of the notice of contract termination. As used in this | 16 | | paragraph, "emergency services" includes, but is not limited | 17 | | to, dispatch, 9-1-1, paramedic, or ambulance services. | 18 | | (c) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit or
| 19 | | discourage in any way the formation of multijurisdictional or | 20 | | regional
systems, and any system established pursuant to this | 21 | | Act may include the
territory of more than one public agency or | 22 | | may include a segment of the
territory of a public agency.
| 23 | | (Source: P.A. 101-639, eff. 6-12-20; 102-9, eff. 6-3-21.)
| 24 | | Section 10. The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems | 25 | | Act is amended by adding Section 3.260 as follows: |
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| 1 | | (210 ILCS 50/3.260 new) | 2 | | Sec. 3.260. Contracts with municipalities. Notwithstanding | 3 | | any provision of the Illinois Municipal Code, a 9-1-1 vendor | 4 | | under Section 13-900 of the Public Utilities Act must give | 5 | | written notice to the municipality it has a contract with or | 6 | | for which it currently provides emergency services not less | 7 | | than 12 months prior to termination of services. If an | 8 | | emergency services contract is terminated, the provider may | 9 | | not increase the fees of any remaining contract by more than 3% | 10 | | of the fees from the previous year. A private sector company | 11 | | that terminates the emergency services contract prior to the | 12 | | natural expiration of the contract term and that seeks an | 13 | | increase in the annual contract value of more than 10% is | 14 | | barred from contracting with any units of local government or | 15 | | entities that receive funding for emergency services for a | 16 | | period of 5 years from the date of the notice of contract | 17 | | termination. | 18 | | As used in this Section, "emergency services" includes, | 19 | | but is not limited to, dispatch, 9-1-1, paramedic, or | 20 | | ambulance services.
| 21 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 22 | | becoming law.".
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