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H0123aaS...................................................by STATE AFFAIRS
EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS - Amends existing law relating to emergency
communications to provide additional legislative findings and intent; to
define terms; to provide for a fee; to provide for the imposition of the
fee; and to provide that prepaid wireline, wireless and VoIP phones with a
service address or place of primary use within Idaho are not considered
prepaid calling cards.
02/07 House intro - 1st rdg - to printing
02/08 Rpt prt - to St Aff
02/21 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
02/22 2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
02/26 3rd rdg - PASSED - 68-0-2
AYES -- Anderson, Andrus, Barrett, Bayer, Bedke, Bell, Black, Block,
Bock, Boe, Bolz, Brackett, Bradford, Chadderdon, Chavez, Chew, Clark,
Collins, Crane, Durst, Edmunson, Eskridge, Hagedorn, Hart, Harwood,
Henbest, Henderson, Jaquet, Killen, King, Kren, Labrador, Lake,
LeFavour, Loertscher, Luker, Marriott, Mathews, McGeachin, Mortimer,
Moyle, Nielsen, Nonini, Pasley-Stuart, Patrick, Pence, Raybould,
Ring, Ringo, Roberts, Ruchti, Rusche, Sayler, Shepherd(2),
Shepherd(8), Shirley, Shively, Smith(30), Smith(24), Snodgrass,
Stevenson, Thayn, Trail, Vander Woude, Wills, Wood(27), Wood(35), Mr.
Speaker
NAYS -- None
Absent and excused -- Bilbao, Schaefer
Floor Sponsor - Wills
Title apvd - to Senate
02/27 Senate intro - 1st rdg - to St Aff
03/15 Rpt out - to 14th Ord
03/16 Rpt out amen - to 1st rdg as amen
03/19 1st rdg - to 2nd rdg as amen
Rls susp - PASSED - 32-0-3
AYES -- Andreason, Bair, Bastian, Bilyeu, Broadsword, Burkett,
Cameron, Coiner, Corder, Darrington, Davis, Fulcher, Geddes, Goedde,
Hammond, Heinrich, Hill, Jorgenson, Kelly, Keough, Langhorst, Little,
Lodge, McGee, McKague, McKenzie, Pearce, Richardson, Schroeder,
Siddoway, Stegner, Werk
NAYS -- None
Absent and excused -- Gannon, Malepeai, Stennett
Floor Sponsor - Darrington
Title apvd - to House
03/20 House concurred in Senate amens - to engros
03/21 Rpt engros - 1st rdg - to 2nd rdg as amen
03/22 2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg as amen
03/26 3rd rdg as amen - PASSED - 68-0-2
AYES -- Andrus, Barrett, Bayer, Bedke, Bell, Bilbao, Black, Block,
Bock, Boe, Bolz, Brackett, Bradford, Chadderdon, Chavez, Chew, Clark,
Collins, Crane, Durst, Edmunson, Eskridge, Hagedorn, Hart, Harwood,
Henbest, Jaquet, Killen, King, Kren, Labrador, Lake, LeFavour,
Loertscher, Luker, Marriott, Mathews, McGeachin, Mortimer, Moyle,
Nielsen, Nonini, Pasley-Stuart, Patrick, Pence, Raybould, Ring,
Ringo, Roberts, Ruchti, Rusche, Sayler, Schaefer, Shepherd(2),
Shepherd(8), Shirley, Shively, Smith(30), Smith(24), Snodgrass,
Stevenson, Thayn, Trail, Vander Woude, Wills, Wood(27), Wood(35), Mr.
Speaker
NAYS -- None
Absent and excused -- Anderson, Henderson
Floor Sponsor - Wills
Title apvd - to enrol
03/27 Rpt enrol - Sp signed
03/28 Pres signed - To Governor
04/02 Governor signed
Session Law Chapter 340
Effective: 07/01/07
]]]] LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO ]]]]
Fifty-ninth Legislature First Regular Session - 2007
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
HOUSE BILL NO. 123
BY STATE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
1 AN ACT
2 RELATING TO EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS; AMENDING SECTION 31-4801, IDAHO CODE, TO
3 PROVIDE A LEGISLATIVE FINDING AND A LEGISLATIVE INTENT AND TO MAKE A TECH-
4 NICAL CORRECTION; AMENDING SECTION 31-4802, IDAHO CODE, TO REVISE DEFINI-
5 TIONS; AMENDING SECTION 31-4804, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE FOR A FEE AND TO
6 PROVIDE FOR THE IMPOSITION OF THE FEE; AND AMENDING SECTION 31-4813, IDAHO
7 CODE, TO PROVIDE THAT PREPAID WIRELINE, WIRELESS AND VoIP PHONES ARE NOT
8 CONSIDERED PREPAID CALLING CARDS.
9 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:
10 SECTION 1. That Section 31-4801, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
11 amended to read as follows:
12 31-4801. PURPOSE. The legislature recognizes that providing consolidated
13 emergency communications systems is vital in enhancing the public health,
14 safety, and welfare of the residents of the state of Idaho. The legislature
15 further finds that there is an obvious need for providing a means to finance
16 the initiation, maintenance, operation, enhancement and governance of consoli-
17 dated emergency communications systems.
18 (1) The legislature of the state of Idaho finds that:
19 (a) Since the original enactment of the emergency communications act in
20 1988, many of Idaho's communities have found that they are lacking in the
21 resources to fully fund emergency communications systems at the local
22 level;
23 (b) Changes in technology and the rapid growth of communications media
24 have demonstrated that financing such systems solely by a line charge on
25 subscribers to wire-line wireline services does not reflect utilization of
26 emergency communications systems by subscribers to wireless and other
27 forms of communications systems;
28 (c) There is a need to enhance funding for the initiation and enhancement
29 of consolidated emergency communications systems throughout the state;
30 (d) Utilization of cellular telephones and voice over internet protocol
31 (VoIP) communications to access emergency communications systems has sub-
32 stantially increased citizen access to emergency services while at the
33 same time increasing demands upon the emergency response system;
34 (e) In order to protect and promote the public health and safety, and to
35 keep pace with advances in telecommunications technology and the various
36 choices of telecommunications technology available to the public, there is
37 a need to plan and develop a statewide coordinated policy and program to
38 ensure that enhanced 911 services are available to all citizens of the
39 state and in all areas of the state.
40 (2) Therefore, it is hereby declared that the intent and purpose of the
41 provisions of this act are to:
42 (a) Provide authority to counties and 911 service areas to impose an
43 emergency communications fee on the use of both telephone lines, and wire-
2
1 less,VoIP or other communications systems services that connect an indi-
2 vidual dialing 911 to an established public safety answering point;
3 (b) Provide that the emergency communications fee shall be exclusively
4 utilized by the counties or 911 service areas electing to impose it to
5 finance the initiation, maintenance, operation, enhancement and governance
6 of consolidated emergency systems as well as enhanced consolidated emer-
7 gency systems;
8 (c) Provide for the agreed-to reimbursement to telecommunications
9 providers for their implementation of enhanced consolidated emergency com-
10 munications systems by counties or 911 service areas that have implemented
11 enhanced consolidated emergency communications systems.
12 SECTION 2. That Section 31-4802, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
13 amended to read as follows:
14 31-4802. DEFINITIONS. As used in this chapter:
15 (1) "Access line" means any telephone line, trunk line, network access
16 register, dedicated radio signal, or equivalent that provides switched tele-
17 communications access to a consolidated emergency communications system from
18 either a service address or a place of primary use within this state. In the
19 case of wireless technology, each active dedicated telephone number shall be
20 considered a single access line.
21 (2) "Administrator" means the person, officer or agency designated to
22 operate a consolidated emergency communications system, and to receive funds
23 for such an operation.
24 (3) "Basic consolidated emergency system" means consolidated emergency
25 systems that are not enhanced.
26 (4) "Consolidated emergency communications system" means facilities,
27 equipment and dispatching services directly related to establishing, maintain-
28 ing, or enhancing a 911 emergency communications service.
29 (5) "Emergency communications fee" means the fee provided for in section
30 31-4803, Idaho Code.
31 (6) "Enhanced consolidated emergency system" means consolidated emergency
32 systems that provide enhanced wireless 911 service and include, but are not
33 limited to, the technological capability to provide call back numbers, cell
34 site locations, and the location of calls by latitude and longitude and made
35 through the systems of wireless carriers.
36 (7) "Governing board" means the joint powers board, if the 911 service
37 area is a multicounty area, or the board of county commissioners of the county
38 or the city council if the 911 service area is a city, or both the board of
39 county commissioners and the city council if the 911 service area includes
40 both city and county residents but not the entire county.
41 (8) "Interconnected" means the ability of the user to receive calls from
42 and terminate calls to the public switched telephone network (PSTN), including
43 commercial mobile radio service (CMRS) networks.
44 (9) "Interconnected VoIP service" means a service bearing the following
45 characteristics:
46 (a) The service enables real-time, two-way voice communications;
47 (b) The service requires a broadband connection from the user's location;
48 (c) The service requires IP-compatible customer premises equipment; and
49 (d) The service permits users to receive calls that originate on the pub-
50 lic switched telephone network (PSTN) and to terminate calls on the PSTN.
51 (10) "Interconnected VoIP service line" means an interconnected VoIP ser-
52 vice that offers an active telephone number, or successor dialing protocol
53 assigned by a VoIP provider to a VoIP service customer number that has an
3
1 outbound calling capability of directly accessing a public safety answering
2 point.
3 (11) "911 service area" means a regional, multicounty, county or area
4 other than a whole county in which area the residents have voted to establish
5 a consolidated emergency communications system.
6 (912) "Place of primary use" means the residential street address or the
7 primary business street address in Idaho where the customer's use of the wire-
8 less or VoIP service primarily occurs. For the purposes of 911 fees imposed
9 upon interconnected VoIP service lines, the place of primary use shall be the
10 customer's registered location on the date the customer is billed.
11 (103) "Telecommunications provider" means any person providing:
12 (a) Eexchange telephone service to a service address within this state;
13 or
14 (b) Aany wireless carrier providing telecommunications service to any
15 customer having a place of primary use within this state; or
16 (c) Interconnected VoIP service to any customer having a place of primary
17 use within this state; or
18 (d) A provider of any other communications service that connects an indi-
19 vidual having either a service address or a place of primary use within
20 this state to an established public safety answering point by dialing 911.
21 (14) "VoIP service provider" means any person providing interconnected
22 voice over internet protocol (VoIP) service.
23 (115) "Wireless carrier" means a cellular licensee, a personal communica-
24 tions service licensee, and certain specialized mobile radio providers desig-
25 nated as covered carriers by the federal communications commission in 47 CFR
26 20.18 and any successor to such rule.
27 SECTION 3. That Section 31-4804, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
28 amended to read as follows:
29 31-4804. EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS FEE. (1) The emergency communications
30 fee provided pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be a uniform
31 amount not to exceed one dollar ($1.00) per month per access or interconnected
32 VoIP service line, and such fee shall be used exclusively to finance the ini-
33 tiation, maintenance, operation, enhancement and governance of a consolidated
34 emergency communications system and provide for the reimbursement of telecom-
35 munications providers for implementing enhanced consolidated emergency systems
36 as provided for in section 31-4804A, Idaho Code. All emergency communications
37 fees collected and expended pursuant to this section shall be audited by an
38 independent, third party auditor ordinarily retained by the governing board
39 for auditing purposes. The purpose of the audit as related to emergency commu-
40 nications systems is to verify the accuracy and completeness of fees collected
41 and costs expended.
42 (2) The fee shall be imposed upon and collected from customers purchasers
43 of access lines or interconnected VoIP service lines with a service address or
44 place of primary use within the county or 911 service area on a monthly basis
45 by all telecommunications providers that make available access lines to per-
46 sons within the county, or 911 service area, and of such services. The fee may
47 be listed as a separate item on customers' monthly bills.
48 (3) The telecommunications providers shall remit such fee to the county
49 treasurer's office or the administrator for the 911 service area based upon
50 the 911 service area from which the fees were collected. In the event the
51 telecommunications provider remits such fees based upon the emergency commu-
52 nications fee billed to the customer, a deduction shall be allowed for uncol-
53 lected amounts when such amounts are treated as bad debt for financial report-
4
1 ing purposes.
2 (4) From every remittance to the governing body made on or before the
3 date when the same becomes due, the telecommunications provider required to
4 remit the same shall be entitled to deduct and retain one percent (1%) of the
5 collected amount as the cost of administration for collecting the charge.
6 Telecommunications providers will be allowed to list the surcharge as a sepa-
7 rate item on the telephone subscriber's bill, and shall have no obligation to
8 take any legal action to enforce the collection of any charge, nor be held
9 liable for such uncollected amounts.
10 (5) Use of fees. The emergency communications fee provided hereunder
11 shall be used only to pay for the lease, purchase or maintenance of emergency
12 communications equipment for basic and enhanced consolidated emergency sys-
13 tems, including necessary computer hardware, software, database provisioning,
14 training, salaries directly related to such systems, costs of establishing
15 such systems, management, maintenance and operation of hardware and software
16 applications and agreed-to reimbursement costs of telecommunications providers
17 related to the operation of such systems. All other expenditures necessary to
18 operate such systems and other normal and necessary safety or law enforcement
19 functions including, but not limited to, those expenditures related to over-
20 head, staffing, dispatching, administrative and other day to day operational
21 expenditures, shall continue to be paid through the general funding of the
22 respective governing boards; provided however, that any governing body using
23 the emergency communication fee to pay the salaries of dispatchers as of March
24 1, 2006, may continue to do so until the beginning of such governing body's
25 2007 fiscal year.
26 SECTION 4. That Section 31-4813, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
27 amended to read as follows:
28 31-4813. PREPAID CALLING CARDS. The imposition of the emergency communi-
29 cations fee shall not apply to the prepaid calling cards for all forms of
30 access fees. Prepaid wireline, wireless and VoIP phones are not considered
31 prepaid calling cards.
]]]] LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO ]]]]
Fifty-ninth Legislature First Regular Session - 2007
Moved by Darrington
Seconded by McKenzie
IN THE SENATE
SENATE AMENDMENT TO H.B. NO. 123
1 AMENDMENT TO SECTION 4
2 On page 4 of the printed bill, in line 30, following "phones" insert:
3 "with a service address or place of primary use within Idaho".
4 CORRECTION TO TITLE
5 On page 1, in line 7, following "PHONES" insert: "WITH A SERVICE ADDRESS
6 OR PLACE OF PRIMARY USE WITHIN IDAHO".
]]]] LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO ]]]]
Fifty-ninth Legislature First Regular Session - 2007
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
HOUSE BILL NO. 123, As Amended in the Senate
BY STATE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
1 AN ACT
2 RELATING TO EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS; AMENDING SECTION 31-4801, IDAHO CODE, TO
3 PROVIDE A LEGISLATIVE FINDING AND A LEGISLATIVE INTENT AND TO MAKE A TECH-
4 NICAL CORRECTION; AMENDING SECTION 31-4802, IDAHO CODE, TO REVISE DEFINI-
5 TIONS; AMENDING SECTION 31-4804, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE FOR A FEE AND TO
6 PROVIDE FOR THE IMPOSITION OF THE FEE; AND AMENDING SECTION 31-4813, IDAHO
7 CODE, TO PROVIDE THAT PREPAID WIRELINE, WIRELESS AND VoIP PHONES WITH A
8 SERVICE ADDRESS OR PLACE OF PRIMARY USE WITHIN IDAHO ARE NOT CONSIDERED
9 PREPAID CALLING CARDS.
10 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:
11 SECTION 1. That Section 31-4801, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
12 amended to read as follows:
13 31-4801. PURPOSE. The legislature recognizes that providing consolidated
14 emergency communications systems is vital in enhancing the public health,
15 safety, and welfare of the residents of the state of Idaho. The legislature
16 further finds that there is an obvious need for providing a means to finance
17 the initiation, maintenance, operation, enhancement and governance of consoli-
18 dated emergency communications systems.
19 (1) The legislature of the state of Idaho finds that:
20 (a) Since the original enactment of the emergency communications act in
21 1988, many of Idaho's communities have found that they are lacking in the
22 resources to fully fund emergency communications systems at the local
23 level;
24 (b) Changes in technology and the rapid growth of communications media
25 have demonstrated that financing such systems solely by a line charge on
26 subscribers to wire-line wireline services does not reflect utilization of
27 emergency communications systems by subscribers to wireless and other
28 forms of communications systems;
29 (c) There is a need to enhance funding for the initiation and enhancement
30 of consolidated emergency communications systems throughout the state;
31 (d) Utilization of cellular telephones and voice over internet protocol
32 (VoIP) communications to access emergency communications systems has sub-
33 stantially increased citizen access to emergency services while at the
34 same time increasing demands upon the emergency response system;
35 (e) In order to protect and promote the public health and safety, and to
36 keep pace with advances in telecommunications technology and the various
37 choices of telecommunications technology available to the public, there is
38 a need to plan and develop a statewide coordinated policy and program to
39 ensure that enhanced 911 services are available to all citizens of the
40 state and in all areas of the state.
41 (2) Therefore, it is hereby declared that the intent and purpose of the
42 provisions of this act are to:
43 (a) Provide authority to counties and 911 service areas to impose an
2
1 emergency communications fee on the use of both telephone lines, and wire-
2 less,VoIP or other communications systems services that connect an indi-
3 vidual dialing 911 to an established public safety answering point;
4 (b) Provide that the emergency communications fee shall be exclusively
5 utilized by the counties or 911 service areas electing to impose it to
6 finance the initiation, maintenance, operation, enhancement and governance
7 of consolidated emergency systems as well as enhanced consolidated emer-
8 gency systems;
9 (c) Provide for the agreed-to reimbursement to telecommunications
10 providers for their implementation of enhanced consolidated emergency com-
11 munications systems by counties or 911 service areas that have implemented
12 enhanced consolidated emergency communications systems.
13 SECTION 2. That Section 31-4802, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
14 amended to read as follows:
15 31-4802. DEFINITIONS. As used in this chapter:
16 (1) "Access line" means any telephone line, trunk line, network access
17 register, dedicated radio signal, or equivalent that provides switched tele-
18 communications access to a consolidated emergency communications system from
19 either a service address or a place of primary use within this state. In the
20 case of wireless technology, each active dedicated telephone number shall be
21 considered a single access line.
22 (2) "Administrator" means the person, officer or agency designated to
23 operate a consolidated emergency communications system, and to receive funds
24 for such an operation.
25 (3) "Basic consolidated emergency system" means consolidated emergency
26 systems that are not enhanced.
27 (4) "Consolidated emergency communications system" means facilities,
28 equipment and dispatching services directly related to establishing, maintain-
29 ing, or enhancing a 911 emergency communications service.
30 (5) "Emergency communications fee" means the fee provided for in section
31 31-4803, Idaho Code.
32 (6) "Enhanced consolidated emergency system" means consolidated emergency
33 systems that provide enhanced wireless 911 service and include, but are not
34 limited to, the technological capability to provide call back numbers, cell
35 site locations, and the location of calls by latitude and longitude and made
36 through the systems of wireless carriers.
37 (7) "Governing board" means the joint powers board, if the 911 service
38 area is a multicounty area, or the board of county commissioners of the county
39 or the city council if the 911 service area is a city, or both the board of
40 county commissioners and the city council if the 911 service area includes
41 both city and county residents but not the entire county.
42 (8) "Interconnected" means the ability of the user to receive calls from
43 and terminate calls to the public switched telephone network (PSTN), including
44 commercial mobile radio service (CMRS) networks.
45 (9) "Interconnected VoIP service" means a service bearing the following
46 characteristics:
47 (a) The service enables real-time, two-way voice communications;
48 (b) The service requires a broadband connection from the user's location;
49 (c) The service requires IP-compatible customer premises equipment; and
50 (d) The service permits users to receive calls that originate on the pub-
51 lic switched telephone network (PSTN) and to terminate calls on the PSTN.
52 (10) "Interconnected VoIP service line" means an interconnected VoIP ser-
53 vice that offers an active telephone number, or successor dialing protocol
3
1 assigned by a VoIP provider to a VoIP service customer number that has an
2 outbound calling capability of directly accessing a public safety answering
3 point.
4 (11) "911 service area" means a regional, multicounty, county or area
5 other than a whole county in which area the residents have voted to establish
6 a consolidated emergency communications system.
7 (912) "Place of primary use" means the residential street address or the
8 primary business street address in Idaho where the customer's use of the wire-
9 less or VoIP service primarily occurs. For the purposes of 911 fees imposed
10 upon interconnected VoIP service lines, the place of primary use shall be the
11 customer's registered location on the date the customer is billed.
12 (103) "Telecommunications provider" means any person providing:
13 (a) Eexchange telephone service to a service address within this state;
14 or
15 (b) Aany wireless carrier providing telecommunications service to any
16 customer having a place of primary use within this state; or
17 (c) Interconnected VoIP service to any customer having a place of primary
18 use within this state; or
19 (d) A provider of any other communications service that connects an indi-
20 vidual having either a service address or a place of primary use within
21 this state to an established public safety answering point by dialing 911.
22 (14) "VoIP service provider" means any person providing interconnected
23 voice over internet protocol (VoIP) service.
24 (115) "Wireless carrier" means a cellular licensee, a personal communica-
25 tions service licensee, and certain specialized mobile radio providers desig-
26 nated as covered carriers by the federal communications commission in 47 CFR
27 20.18 and any successor to such rule.
28 SECTION 3. That Section 31-4804, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
29 amended to read as follows:
30 31-4804. EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS FEE. (1) The emergency communications
31 fee provided pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be a uniform
32 amount not to exceed one dollar ($1.00) per month per access or interconnected
33 VoIP service line, and such fee shall be used exclusively to finance the ini-
34 tiation, maintenance, operation, enhancement and governance of a consolidated
35 emergency communications system and provide for the reimbursement of telecom-
36 munications providers for implementing enhanced consolidated emergency systems
37 as provided for in section 31-4804A, Idaho Code. All emergency communications
38 fees collected and expended pursuant to this section shall be audited by an
39 independent, third party auditor ordinarily retained by the governing board
40 for auditing purposes. The purpose of the audit as related to emergency commu-
41 nications systems is to verify the accuracy and completeness of fees collected
42 and costs expended.
43 (2) The fee shall be imposed upon and collected from customers purchasers
44 of access lines or interconnected VoIP service lines with a service address or
45 place of primary use within the county or 911 service area on a monthly basis
46 by all telecommunications providers that make available access lines to per-
47 sons within the county, or 911 service area, and of such services. The fee may
48 be listed as a separate item on customers' monthly bills.
49 (3) The telecommunications providers shall remit such fee to the county
50 treasurer's office or the administrator for the 911 service area based upon
51 the 911 service area from which the fees were collected. In the event the
52 telecommunications provider remits such fees based upon the emergency commu-
53 nications fee billed to the customer, a deduction shall be allowed for uncol-
4
1 lected amounts when such amounts are treated as bad debt for financial report-
2 ing purposes.
3 (4) From every remittance to the governing body made on or before the
4 date when the same becomes due, the telecommunications provider required to
5 remit the same shall be entitled to deduct and retain one percent (1%) of the
6 collected amount as the cost of administration for collecting the charge.
7 Telecommunications providers will be allowed to list the surcharge as a sepa-
8 rate item on the telephone subscriber's bill, and shall have no obligation to
9 take any legal action to enforce the collection of any charge, nor be held
10 liable for such uncollected amounts.
11 (5) Use of fees. The emergency communications fee provided hereunder
12 shall be used only to pay for the lease, purchase or maintenance of emergency
13 communications equipment for basic and enhanced consolidated emergency sys-
14 tems, including necessary computer hardware, software, database provisioning,
15 training, salaries directly related to such systems, costs of establishing
16 such systems, management, maintenance and operation of hardware and software
17 applications and agreed-to reimbursement costs of telecommunications providers
18 related to the operation of such systems. All other expenditures necessary to
19 operate such systems and other normal and necessary safety or law enforcement
20 functions including, but not limited to, those expenditures related to over-
21 head, staffing, dispatching, administrative and other day to day operational
22 expenditures, shall continue to be paid through the general funding of the
23 respective governing boards; provided however, that any governing body using
24 the emergency communication fee to pay the salaries of dispatchers as of March
25 1, 2006, may continue to do so until the beginning of such governing body's
26 2007 fiscal year.
27 SECTION 4. That Section 31-4813, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
28 amended to read as follows:
29 31-4813. PREPAID CALLING CARDS. The imposition of the emergency communi-
30 cations fee shall not apply to the prepaid calling cards for all forms of
31 access fees. Prepaid wireline, wireless and VoIP phones with a service address
32 or place of primary use within Idaho are not considered prepaid calling cards.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
RS 16895
This legislation is intended to provide for a fee and
imposition of a fee for voice over internet protocol
(VOIP)communication. It also gives definitions of VOIP systems.
It allows the same fees for this type of communication as other
911 fees in the state.
The rapid technological changes for wire-line service or any
other utilization of emergency communication systems are already
in place. This simply provides for that same fee to be imposed
for this type of 911 service. This fee is used for the 911
systems throughout the state.
It allows for a fee not to exceed $1.00 per month per access
line and such fee is used exclusively for initiation,
enhancement, and governance of a consolidated emergency
communication system.
FISCAL NOTE
None.
Contact
Name: Rep. Rich Wills
Phone: 208-332-1000
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL NOTE H 123