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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 1082
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 5986
Referred to Committee on PLANNING AND
DEVELOPMENT
Introduced by:
(PD)
AN ACT CONCERNING TH E CONSOLIDATION OF PUBLIC SAFETY
ANSWERING POINTS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 28-24 of the general statutes is repealed and the 1
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2019): 2
(a) There is established a Division of State-Wide Emergency 3
Telecommunications which shall be within the Department of 4
Emergency Services and Public Protection. The Division of State-Wide 5
Emergency Telecommunications shall be responsible for developing 6
and maintaining a state-wide emergency service telecommunications 7
policy. In connection with said policy, the division shall: 8
(1) Develop a state-wide emergency service telecommunications 9
plan specifying emergency police, fire and medical service 10
telecommunications systems needed to provide coordinated 11
emergency service telecommunications to all state residents, including 12
the physically disabled; 13 Raised Bill No. 1082
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(2) Develop and administer an enhanced emergency 9-1-1 program, 14
which shall provide for: (A) The replacement of existing 9-1-1 terminal 15
equipment for each public safety answering point; (B) the 16
subsidization of regional public safety emergency telecommunications 17
centers, with enhanced subsidization for municipalities with a 18
population of forty thousand or more; (C) the establishment of [a 19
transition grant program] incentives to encourage regionalization of 20
public safety answering points, which incentives shall include, but not 21
be limited to, a transition grant program; (D) the establishment of a 22
regional emergency telecommunications service credit in order to 23
support regional dispatch services; and (E) the implementation of the 24
next generation 9-1-1 telecommunication system; 25
(3) Provide technical telecommunications assistance to state and 26
local police, fire and emergency medical service agencies; 27
(4) Provide frequency coordination for such agencies; 28
(5) Coordinate and assist in state-wide planning for 9-1-1, E 9-1-1 29
and the next generation 9-1-1 telecommunication systems, with a focus 30
on facilitating the regionalization of public safety answering points; 31
(6) Review and make recommendations concerning proposed 32
legislation affecting emergency service telecommunications; 33
(7) Review and make recommendations to the General Assembly 34
concerning emergency service telecommunications funding, including 35
ways to reduce costs by removing barriers to consolidation of existing 36
public safety answering points; and 37
(8) On or before January first of each year, prepare the annual 38
budget for the use of funds from th e Enhanced 9-1-1 39
Telecommunications Fund and submit such budget to the Secretary of 40
the Office of Policy and Management for the secretary's review and 41
approval. On or before January fifteenth of each year, said secretary 42
shall submit a report concerning the proposed use of such funds to the 43
joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance 44 Raised Bill No. 1082
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of matters relating to appropriations and the budgets of state agencies, 45
finance, revenue and bonding, and public safety in accordance with 46
the provisions of section 11-4a. 47
(b) The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection 48
shall adopt regulations, in accordance with chapter 54, establishing 49
eligibility standards for state financial assistance to local or regional 50
police, fire and emergency medical service agencies providing 51
emergency service telecommunications. Not later than April 1, 1997, 52
the commissioner shall adopt regulations, in accordance with chapter 53
54, in order to carry out the provisions of subdivision (2) of subsection 54
(a) of this section. 55
(c) Within a time period determined by the commissioner to ensure 56
the availability of funds for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1997, to the 57
regional emergency telecommunications centers within the state, and 58
not later than April first of each year thereafter, the commissioner shall 59
determine the amount of funding needed for the development and 60
administration of the enhanced emergency 9-1-1 program. The 61
commissioner shall specify the expenses associated with (1) the 62
purchase, installation and maintenance of new public safety answering 63
point terminal equipment, (2) the implementation of the subsidy 64
program, as described in subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of this 65
section, (3) the establishment of incentives to encourage 66
regionalization of public safety answering points, including the 67
implementation of the transition grant program, described in 68
subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of this section, (4) the implementation 69
of the regional emergency telecommunications service credit, as 70
described in subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of this section, provided, 71
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2001, and each fiscal year thereafter, 72
such credit for coordinated medical emergency direction services as 73
provided in regulations adopted under this section shall be based 74
upon the factor of thirty cents per capita and shall not be reduced each 75
year, (5) the training of personnel, as necessary, (6) recurring expenses 76
and future capital costs associated with the telecommunications 77 Raised Bill No. 1082
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network used to provide emergency 9-1-1 service and the public safety 78
services data networks, (7) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2001, and 79
each fiscal year thereafter, the collection, maintenance and reporting of 80
emergency medical services data, as required under subparagraph (A) 81
of subdivision (8) of section 19a-177, provided the amount of expenses 82
specified under this subdivision shall not exceed two hundred fifty 83
thousand dollars in any fiscal year, (8) for the fiscal year ending June 84
30, 2001, and each fiscal year thereafter, the initial training of 85
emergency medical dispatch personnel, the provision of an emergency 86
medical dispatch priority reference card set and emergency medical 87
dispatch training and continuing education pursuant to subdivisions 88
(3) and (4) of subsection (g) of section 28-25b, (9) the administration of 89
the enhanced emergency 9-1-1 program by the Division of State-Wide 90
Emergency Telecommunications, as the commissioner determines to 91
be reasonably necessary, and (10) the implementation and 92
maintenance of the public safety data network established pursuant to 93
section 29-1j. The commissioner shall communicate the commissioner's 94
findings to the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority not later than 95
April first of each year. 96
(d) The division may apply for, receive and distribute any federal 97
funds available for emergency service telecommunications. The 98
division shall deposit such federal funds in the Enhanced 9-1-1 99
Telecommunications Fund established pursuant to section 28-30a. 100
(e) The division shall work in cooperation with the Public Utilities 101
Regulatory Authority to carry out the purposes of this section. 102
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2019 28-24
PD Joint Favorable