12-5309. Enhanced 911 task force.
12-5309
12-5309. Enhanced 911 task force. (a) There is hereby established an enhanced 911 task force which shall develop a strategy for funding and deploying wireless emergency telephone services. Such plan shall include suggestions for future action by the legislature with respect to deploying efficient and economical enhanced 911 services and implementing equitable and adequate means to fund such services. Specifically, the task force shall make recommendations and propose legislation, if appropriate, concerning the following: (1) The mechanism for administering wireless 911 service, with a focus on whether such service shall be administered on a centralized basis; (2) the possible formation of an oversight board to address future technological, coordination and regulatory issues related to deployment of wireless emergency telephone service; (3) the fairness and adequacy of the mechanism for funding such service; (4) the method, if any, for recovering costs incurred by public safety answering points and by wireless telecommunications service providers in providing emergency telephone service; and (5) any other issues the task force deems relevant to the deployment of emergency telephone service.
(b) The task force shall consist of 14 members. Two members shall be representatives of wireless telecommunications carriers to be appointed by the governor. The remainder of the task force shall be appointed as follows: One member representing a local exchange carrier other than a rural telephone company and one member representing a rural telephone company who shall be recommended by the Kansas telecommunications industry association. Two members shall be recommended by the Kansas association of counties and two members shall be recommended by the league of Kansas municipalities. One member shall be a person with a communication disability recommended by the Kansas commission for the deaf and hard of hearing. One member shall be recommended by the Kansas emergency medical services board. One member shall be recommended by the Kansas association of fire chiefs. One member shall be recommended by the Kansas association of chiefs of police. The names of the recommended members shall be transmitted to the governor for final approval. No such recommended member shall serve unless approved by the governor. The remaining members of the task force shall include: The superintendent of the highway patrol or the superintendent's designee; the chair of the state corporation commission or the chair's designee. The governor shall designate one member as chair of the task force. All meetings shall be on call of the chair. All task force members shall serve without compensation.
(c) The task force shall report its findings and conclusion to the house committee on utilities and the senate committee on commerce during the first week of the 2001 legislative session. The state corporation commission shall provide staff support to the task force as necessary. Such staff shall prepare the report and any legislation recommended by the task force.
(d) The task force shall be and is hereby abolished on July 1, 2001.
History: L. 2000, ch. 128, § 1; Apr. 27.