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OH HB360
Bill
Status
12/20/2012
Primary Sponsor
John Adams
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AI Summary
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Transfers 9-1-1 system authority from the Public Utilities Commission to the Director of Public Safety and Tax Commissioner, relocating related statutes from Chapter 4931 to Chapter 5507
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Revises the wireless 9-1-1 charge structure: maintains twenty-five cents per month for standard wireless subscribers (reduced from twenty-eight cents) and creates a new charge of fifty hundredths of a percent on prepaid wireless calling service retail sales effective July 1, 2013
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Establishes the statewide emergency services internet protocol network steering committee to oversee next-generation 9-1-1 technology implementation and consolidation of public safety answering points
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Creates the next generation 9-1-1 fund to collect revenue from prepaid wireless charges after administrative costs and government assistance fund disbursements, managed by the Tax Commissioner according to steering committee policies
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Implements a mandatory consolidation schedule requiring counties to reduce the number of funded public safety answering points from five to four (by 2016) to three (by 2018), with penalties of fifty percent fund reduction for non-compliance
Legislative Description
To transfer certain 9-1-1 authority to the Director of Public Safety and to the tax commissioner, to revise the amount and methods of collection and remittance of the wireless 9-1-1 charge for prepaid wireless services, and to declare an emergency.
911 charge for prepaid wireless service- revise amounts and methods of paying for
Last Action
Effective Date
12/20/2012