Legislative Session number- 83

Bill Name: SF1308

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)