Legislative Session number- 83

Bill Name: SF1128

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)