1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to public safety; increasing 911 emergency telecommunications service 
1.3 	fee; providing for completion of statewide public safety radio communication 
1.4 	system; authorizing sale of state bonds; appropriating money;amending 
1.5 	Minnesota Statutes 2005 Supplement, section 403.11, subdivision 1.
1.6 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.7 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2005 Supplement, section 403.11, subdivision 1, is 
1.8 	amended to read:
1.9 		Subdivision 1.Emergency telecommunications service fee; account. (a) Each 
1.10 	customer of a wireless or wire-line switched or packet-based telecommunications service 
1.11 	provider connected to the public switched telephone network that furnishes service 
1.12 	capable of originating a 911 emergency telephone call is assessed a fee based upon the 
1.13 	number of wired or wireless telephone lines, or their equivalent, to cover the costs of 
1.14 	ongoing maintenance and related improvements for trunking and central office switching 
1.15 	equipment for 911 emergency telecommunications service, plus administrative and staffing 
1.16 	costs of the commissioner related to managing the 911 emergency telecommunications 
1.17 	service program. Recurring charges by a wire-line telecommunications service provider 
1.18 	for updating the information required by section 403.07, subdivision 3, must be paid by 
1.19 	the commissioner if the wire-line telecommunications service provider is included in 
1.20 	an approved 911 plan and the charges are made pursuant to contract. The fee assessed 
1.21 	under this section must also be used for the purpose of offsetting the costs, including 
1.22 	administrative and staffing costs, incurred by the State Patrol Division of the Department 
1.23 	of Public Safety in handling 911 emergency calls made from wireless phones.
1.24 	(b) Money remaining in the 911 emergency telecommunications service account 
1.25 	after all other obligations are paid must not cancel and is carried forward to subsequent 
2.1 	years and may be appropriated from time to time to the commissioner to provide financial 
2.2 	assistance to counties for the improvement of local emergency telecommunications 
2.3 	services. The improvements may include providing access to 911 service for 
2.4 	telecommunications service subscribers currently without access and upgrading existing 
2.5 	911 service to include automatic number identification, local location identification, 
2.6 	automatic location identification, and other improvements specified in revised county 
2.7 	911 plans approved by the commissioner.
2.8 	(c) The fee may not be less than eight cents nor more than 65 93 cents a month for 
2.9 	each customer access line or other basic access service, including trunk equivalents as 
2.10 	designated by the Public Utilities Commission for access charge purposes and including 
2.11 	wireless telecommunications services. With the approval of the commissioner of finance, 
2.12 	the commissioner of public safety shall establish the amount of the fee within the limits 
2.13 	specified and inform the companies and carriers of the amount to be collected. When the 
2.14 	revenue bonds authorized under section 403.27, subdivision 1, have been fully paid or 
2.15 	defeased, the commissioner shall reduce the fee to reflect that debt service on the bonds is 
2.16 	no longer needed. The commissioner shall provide companies and carriers a minimum of 
2.17 	45 days' notice of each fee change. The fee must be the same for all customers.
2.18 	(d) The fee must be collected by each wireless or wire-line telecommunications 
2.19 	service provider subject to the fee. Fees are payable to and must be submitted to the 
2.20 	commissioner monthly before the 25th of each month following the month of collection, 
2.21 	except that fees may be submitted quarterly if less than $250 a month is due, or annually if 
2.22 	less than $25 a month is due. Receipts must be deposited in the state treasury and credited 
2.23 	to a 911 emergency telecommunications service account in the special revenue fund. The 
2.24 	money in the account may only be used for 911 telecommunications services.
2.25 	(e) This subdivision does not apply to customers of interexchange carriers.
2.26 	(f) The installation and recurring charges for integrating wireless 911 calls into 
2.27 	enhanced 911 systems must be paid by the commissioner if the 911 service provider is 
2.28 	included in the statewide design plan and the charges are made pursuant to contract.

2.29 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective January 1, 2007.

2.30 	Sec. 2. PUBLIC SAFETY RADIO AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM 
2.31 	CONSTRUCTION.
 
2.32	Subdivision 1.Total Appropriation
 				$277,732,000
	
2.33 	The sums shown in this section are 
2.34 	appropriated from the 911 revenue bond 
3.1 	proceeds account for the purposes indicated, 
3.2 	to be available until the project is completed 
3.3 	or abandoned, subject to Minnesota Statutes, 
3.4 	section 16A.642.

3.5	Subd.  2.Phase 3 Subsystems
 				9,860,000
	
3.6 	To the commissioner of public safety to 
3.7 	reimburse local units of government for up to 
3.8 	50 percent of the cost of building a subsystem 
3.9 	of the public safety radio and communication 
3.10 	system established under Minnesota Statutes, 
3.11 	section 403.36, in the St. Cloud district of the 
3.12 	State Patrol, outside the counties of Benton, 
3.13 	Sherburne, Stearns, and Wright. 

3.14	Subd.  3.Phase 4 System Backbone
 				59,004,000
	
3.15 	To the commissioner of transportation 
3.16 	to construct the system backbone in the 
3.17 	fourth phase of the public safety radio and 
3.18 	communication system plan under Minnesota 
3.19 	Statutes, section 403.36.

3.20	Subd.  4.Phase 4 Subsystems
 				20,275,000
	
3.21 	To the commissioner of public safety to 
3.22 	reimburse local units of government for up to 
3.23 	50 percent of the cost of building a subsystem 
3.24 	of the public safety radio and communication 
3.25 	system established under Minnesota Statutes, 
3.26 	section 403.36, in the Brainerd and Duluth 
3.27 	districts of the State Patrol.

3.28	Subd.  5.Phase 5 System Backbone
 				61,614,000
	
3.29 	To the commissioner of transportation 
3.30 	to construct the system backbone in the 
3.31 	fifth phase of the public safety radio and 
4.1 	communication system plan under Minnesota 
4.2 	Statutes, section 403.36.

4.3	Subd.  6.Phase 5 Subsystems
 				39,370,000
	
4.4 	To the commissioner of public safety to 
4.5 	reimburse local units of government for 
4.6 	up to 50 percent of the cost of building a 
4.7 	subsystem of the public safety radio and 
4.8 	communication system established under 
4.9 	Minnesota Statutes, section 403.36, in 
4.10 	the Detroit Lakes, Mankato, and Marshall 
4.11 	districts of the State Patrol.

4.12	Subd.  7.Phase 6 System Backbone
 				52,953,000
	
4.13 	To the commissioner of transportation 
4.14 	to construct the system backbone in the 
4.15 	sixth phase of the public safety radio and 
4.16 	communication system plan under Minnesota 
4.17 	Statutes, section 403.36.

4.18	Subd.  8.Phase 6 Subsystems
 				17,705,000
	
4.19 	To the commissioner of public safety to 
4.20 	reimburse local units of government for up to 
4.21 	50 percent of the cost of building a subsystem 
4.22 	of the public safety radio and communication 
4.23 	system established under Minnesota Statutes, 
4.24 	section 403.36, in the Thief River Falls and 
4.25 	Virginia districts of the State Patrol.

4.26	Subd. 9.Bond sale authorization
 					
4.27 	To provide the money appropriated in this 
4.28 	section, the commissioner of finance shall 
4.29 	sell and issue bonds of the state in an amount 
4.30 	up to $277,732,000 in the manner, upon 
4.31 	the terms, and with the effect prescribed by 
4.32 	Minnesota Statutes, section 403.275. 

5.1 	Sec. 3. APPROPRIATIONS.
 5.2 		Subdivision 1. Commissioner of finance. $9,562,000 in the fiscal year ending June 
5.3 	30, 2007, is appropriated from the 911 emergency telecommunications service account in 
5.4 	the special revenue fund to the commissioner of finance to pay debt service on revenue 
5.5 	bonds issued under Minnesota Statutes, section 403.275. Any portion of this appropriation 
5.6 	not needed to pay debt service in a fiscal year may be used by the commissioner of public 
5.7 	safety to pay cash for any of the capital improvements for which bond proceeds are 
5.8 	appropriated in section 2. 
5.9 		Subd. 2. Commissioner of public safety. $234,000 in the fiscal year ending June 
5.10 	30, 2007, is appropriated from the 911 emergency telecommunications service account in 
5.11 	the special revenue fund to the commissioner of public safety to supervise construction 
5.12 	and operation of the public safety radio and communication system.