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CA SB1069

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/18/2020

Primary Sponsor

Hannah-Beth Jackson

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Origin

Senate

2019-2020 Session

AI Summary

  • Requires telecommunications service providers to notify the Office of Emergency Services within 60 minutes of discovering community isolation outages affecting 911 calls or emergency notifications, and to provide information about damaged critical telecommunications infrastructure and mobile tower failures.

  • Mandates that each telecommunications provider annually submit to the Office of Emergency Services the names and contact information of official representatives with technical expertise to participate in state and local emergency operations during declared disasters or emergencies.

  • Requires the Public Utilities Commission to direct telecommunications providers to submit annual inventories of critical telecommunications infrastructure and to evaluate how network failures impacted transmission of emergency alerts and notifications during disasters.

  • Requires the commission and Office of Emergency Services to keep information about the precise location and status of critical telecommunications infrastructure confidential for public safety reasons.

  • Requires telecommunications providers to provide real-time information to county emergency services offices upon identifying outages or failures that could impede transmission of emergency alerts or notifications.

Legislative Description

Telecommunications: emergencies and natural disasters: critical communications infrastructure.

Last Action

June 18 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.

6/18/2020

Committee Referrals

Appropriations6/2/2020
Energy, Utilities and Communications2/27/2020
Rules2/18/2020

Full Bill Text

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