Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF1647

1E Relating to telecommunications; modifying certain regulatory expense
assessment provisions; replacing the requirement for telephone companies to pay
for investigations with a new authority application payment requirement,
requiring the public utilities commission to determine the amount of the
payment, limit; requiring and providing for PUC establishment of a per number
fee to fund the telephone assistance (TAP), telecommunications access (TAM) and
911 emergency and public safety communications programs, requiring remittance to
the commissioner of revenue for allocation purposes; transferring the
responsibility for regulation of the telephone assistance plan from the
department of human services to the department of commerce and requiring the
involvement of local service providers; authorizing use of money in the
telephone assistance fund for promotional activities; regulating representations
of 911 service, specifying certain restrictions and certain disclosure
requirements; modifying certain 911 emergency communication system provisions to
conform to the per number fee requirement; requiring commissioner of public
safety grants to public safety answering points (PSAP) to fund enhanced 911
services; modifying the limit on use of the standing 911 appropriation for debt
service costs; repealing the definitions of access line and telephone company
under the telephone assistance plan and the expiration date of certain
delegation and other powers of the PUC
(ra, ja)