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SF 1308 Senate Long Description

Modifying certain public safety radio communication system +provisions; transferring regulatory authority over the radio communication and +emergency telecommunications systems from the commissioners of administration +and transportation (DOT) to the commissioner of public safety; increasing+ the maximum 911 telephone service fee for the cost of the third phase of +the metropolitan area regionwide public safety radio communication system+ and to reimburse local government units for amounts spent for capital +improvements to the first phase, increasing the bonding authority of the metropolitan+ council for payment to local government units for the costs of phases one and+ two and for the costs of implementing phase three, authorizing the +metropolitan radio board to advance money to the commissioner of public safety to pay +for design and preliminary engineering costs, reimbursement requirement; +providing for the allocation of operating costs of implementing phases three to six of +the communications system; changing the name of the public safety radio communication system to the public safety radio and communications +system and increasing the membership of the planning committee by adding a +representative of the league of Minnesota cities from greater Minnesota; specifying +certain renumbering and cross reference change instructions to the revisor of+ statutes; appropriating money to the commissioner of public safety for public +safety answering points implementing enhanced 911 service and for a grant to+ the Minnesota emergency medical services (EMS) regulatory board for metro+ east and west medical resource communication centers(ra)