SF 1128 Senate Long Description
E Transferring the responsibility for the 911 emergency telephone + and public safety radio systems from the commissioners of administration and transportation (DOT) to the commissioner of public safety; +authorizing the commissioner of administration to recover from local telephone +companies collecting combined local access surcharges collection and +distribution personnel and administrative costs; specifying a deadline for the +annual report to the legislature detailing 911 expenditures, fees collected +and the fund balance and eliminating a certain fee transfer requirement; +increasing the emergency telephone services fee to cover the costs of the third + phase of the metropolitan regionwide public safety radio communication system,+ defining third phase; specifying a certain amount of the enhanced 911 service +fee to be distributed for program administration; authorizing the metropolitan +council to issue revenue bonds and increasing the bonding limit to provide money+ for the third phase, appropriating the proceeds to the commissioner of public+ safety for phase three, authorizing a metropolitan radio board advance +payment to the commissioner in anticipation of the receipt of the bond proceeds to +pay for design and preliminary engineering costs; authorizing the use of left+ over 911 service fee receipts to reimburse local government units for amounts +spent for capital improvements to the first phase system previously financed +locally; allocating operating costs of phases three to six among the users, +requiring a local property tax levy to pay delinquent amounts; adding a +representative of the league of Minnesota cities from greater Minnesota to the +membership of the planning committee; specifying certain renumbering and cross +reference change instructions to the revisor of statutes; appropriating money from the+ 911 emergency telecommunications service account to the commissioner of +public safety for public safety answering points and for a grant to the +emergency medical services (EMS) regulatory board for the metro east and west +medical resource communication centers (je, ja)