AB61-SSA1,8,1211 c. A city, village, or town that adopts a resolution under subd. 6. a. shall submit
12a copy of the resolution to the county in which it is located and to the commission.
AB61-SSA1,8,1813 (d) Grants; commission approval and rules. 1. The commission shall approve
14an application under par. (b) or (c) if the commission determines that the costs
15estimated in the application are reasonable and have been, or will be, incurred for
16the purpose of promoting a cost-effective and efficient statewide system for
17responding to wireless emergency 911 telephone calls and, for an application under
18par. (c), if the requirements under subd. 1g. are satisfied.
AB61-SSA1,9,319 1g. If an application under par. (c) includes an estimate of costs for the purpose
20described in par. (c) 1. d., the commission may approve the application only if the
21commission determines that the local government's collection of land information,
22as defined in s. 16.967 (1) (b), and development of a land information system, as
23defined in s. 16.967 (1) (c), that is related to that purpose are consistent with the
24applicable county land records modernization plans developed under s. 59.72 (3) (b),
25conform to the standards on which such plans are based, and do not duplicate land

1information collection and other efforts funded through the land information
2program under s. 16.967 (7). The commission shall obtain the advice of the land
3information board in making determinations under this subdivision.
AB61-SSA1,9,64 1r. If the commission does not approve an application under subd. 1., the
5commission shall provide the applicant or applicants with the commission's reasons
6and give the applicant or applicants an opportunity to resubmit the application.
AB61-SSA1,9,147 2. From the appropriation under s. 20.155 (3) (q), the commission shall make
8grants to reimburse wireless providers and local governments for costs approved
9under subd. 1. that are actually incurred by the wireless providers and local
10governments, except that no wireless provider or local government may receive a
11total amount in grants that exceeds the estimated amount approved by the
12commission under subd. 1. for that wireless provider or local government. For
13applications for the joint operation of a wireless public safety answering point, the
14commission shall apportion the grants in the manner specified under par. (c) 2.
AB61-SSA1,9,1615 3. No grant to a local government under subd. 2. may be used to reimburse costs
16for any of the following:
AB61-SSA1,9,1917 a. Emergency service dispatch, including personnel, training, equipment,
18software, records management, radio communications, and mobile data network
19systems.
AB61-SSA1,9,2020 b. Vehicles and equipment in vehicles.
AB61-SSA1,9,2221 c. Communications equipment and software used to communicate with
22vehicles.
AB61-SSA1,9,2423 d. Real estate and improvements to real estate, other than improvements
24necessary to maintain the security of a wireless public safety answering point.
AB61-SSA1,9,2525 e. Salaries and benefits of operators of a wireless public safety answering point.
AB61-SSA1,10,9
14. The commission shall promulgate rules establishing requirements and
2procedures for making grants under this paragraph, including criteria for approving
3estimated costs under subd. 1. The rules shall require the commission to make the
4grants during the 3-year period beginning on the first day of the 3rd month
5beginning after the effective date of the rules promulgated under par. (f) 1. The rules
6shall include record-keeping requirements to ensure that the grants are used to
7reimburse estimated costs approved by the commission. The rules shall allow the
8commission to make the grants in installments. The rules shall also include
9requirements for wireless providers specified in par. (b) 2. to apply for grants.
AB61-SSA1,10,1710 5. To the greatest extent practicable, a local government that receives a grant
11under this paragraph shall make all purchases, leases, and service contracts under
12the grant through the program under s. 22.07 (3m). If a local government makes a
13purchase, lease, or service contract outside the program under s. 22.07 (3m) when
14a practicable option for that purchase, lease, or service contract is available at a lower
15price under the program under s. 22.07 (3m), the commission shall reduce the
16amount of the local government's grant that is related to that purchase, lease, or
17service contract to reflect the lower price.
AB61-SSA1,10,2318 (e) Supplemental grants. The commission shall promulgate rules for making
19supplemental grants from the appropriation under s. 20.155 (3) (q) to counties that
20submit joint applications required under par. (c) 4. The rules shall establish the
21supplemental grants in amounts that provide an incentive for counties to submit
22joint applications. The rules may not impose any limits on the use of a supplemental
23grant and shall allow the commission to make the grants in installments.
AB61-SSA1,11,1024 (f) Wireless surcharge. 1. The commission shall promulgate rules requiring
25each wireless provider to impose the same monthly surcharge for each telephone

1number of a customer that has a billable address in this state, except that the rules
2shall adjust the amount of the surcharge that is imposed on customers who prepay
3for service to ensure that such customers pay an amount that is comparable to the
4monthly amount paid by other customers. The rules shall require the surcharge to
5be imposed during the 3-year period beginning on the first day of the 2nd month
6beginning after the effective date of the rules. The amount of the surcharge shall be
7sufficient for the commission to administer and make the grants under par. (d) and
8the supplemental grants under par. (e) and for the secretary of administration to
9make transfers under par. (hm). The rules shall require wireless providers to pay
10the surcharge to the commission for deposit in the wireless 911 fund.
AB61-SSA1,11,1311 2. The commission may promulgate rules that increase or decrease the
12surcharge, except that the commission may not increase the surcharge more than
13once per year and any increase must be uniform statewide.
AB61-SSA1,11,1514 3. A wireless provider shall identify the surcharge on a customer's bill on a
15separate line that consists of the words "federal wireless 911 mandate fee."
AB61-SSA1,11,1816 4. The commission may bring an action to collect a surcharge that is not paid
17by a customer and the customer's wireless provider is not liable for the unpaid
18surcharge.
AB61-SSA1,11,2119 (g) Confidentiality of information. The commission shall withhold from public
20inspection any information received under this subsection that would aid a
21competitor of a wireless provider in competition with the wireless provider.
AB61-SSA1,11,2422 (h) Other charges prohibited. No local government or state agency, as defined
23in s. 16.375 (1), except the commission, may require a wireless provider to collect or
24pay a surcharge or fee related to wireless emergency telephone service.
AB61-SSA1,12,5
1(hm) Repayment of universal service fund. For each fiscal year, the secretary
2of administration shall determine the amounts encumbered from the appropriations
3under ss. 20.505 (1) (q) and 20.530 (1) (q) in that fiscal year, and transfer those
4amounts from the wireless 911 fund to the universal service fund when the secretary
5determines that moneys in the wireless 911 fund are sufficient to make the transfers.
AB61-SSA1,12,76 (i) Commission authority. Nothing in this section affects the exemption from
7commission authority for commercial mobile radio service providers in s. 196.202.
AB61-SSA1,12,98 (j) Sunset. This subsection does not apply after the first day of the 42nd month
9beginning after the effective date of the rules promulgated under par. (f) 1.
AB61-SSA1, s. 13 10Section 13. 146.70 (3m) (d) 1g. of the statutes, as created by 2003 Wisconsin
11Act .... (this act), is repealed and recreated to read:
AB61-SSA1,12,2012 146.70 (3m) (d) 1g. If an application under par. (c) includes an estimate of costs
13for the purpose described in par. (c) 1. d., the commission may approve the application
14only if the commission determines that the local government's collection of land
15information, as defined in s. 16.967 (1) (b), 2001 stats., and development of a land
16information system, as defined in s. 16.967 (1) (c), 2001 stats., that is related to that
17purpose are consistent with the applicable county land records modernization plans
18developed under s. 59.72 (3) (b), 2001 stats., conform to the standards on which such
19plans are based, and do not duplicate land information collection and other efforts
20funded through the land information program under s. 16.967 (7), 2001 stats.
AB61-SSA1, s. 14 21Section 14. 146.70 (7) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB61-SSA1,13,222 146.70 (7) Telecommunications utility not liable Liability exemption. A
23telecommunications utility, wireless provider, as defined in sub. (3m) (a) 6., or local
24government, as defined in sub. (3m) (a) 4.,
shall not be liable to any person who uses
25an emergency number system created under this section or makes an emergency

1telephone call initially routed to a wireless public safety answering point, as defined
2in sub. (3m) (a) 7
.
AB61-SSA1, s. 15 3Section 15. 196.218 (5) (a) 11. of the statutes is created to read:
AB61-SSA1,13,54 196.218 (5) (a) 11. For the purposes for which the universal service fund is
5repaid from the wireless 911 fund under s. 146.70 (3m) (hm).
AB61-SSA1, s. 16 6Section 16. 1997 Wisconsin Act 27, section 9456 (3m) is renumbered 1997
7Wisconsin Act 27
, section 9456 (3m) (a) and amended to read:
AB61-SSA1,13,158[1997 Wisconsin Act 27] Section 9456 (3m) (a) The treatment of sections 15.07
9(1) (b) 16., 15.105 (16), 16.968 (by
Section 142am), 20.505 (1) (title) (by Section
10666h),
section 20.505 (1) (ka) (by Section 669am), 23.27 (3) (a) (by Section 769ad),
1123.325 (1) (a), 36.09 (1) (e), 36.25 (12m) (intro.), 59.43 (2) (ag) 1. and (e), 59.72 (1) (a)
12and (b), (3) (intro.), (a) and (b) and (5) and 92.10 (4) (a)
of the statutes, and the repeal
13of sections 16.966 (1), and (2) and (4), 16.967, 20.505 (1) (ie), (ig), (ij) and (ks), 23.32
14(2) (d), 59.43 (1) (u) and 59.72 (1) (am), (3) (c) and (4)
of the statutes and Section 9101
15(1) of this act
take effect on September 1, 2003.
AB61-SSA1, s. 17 16Section 17. 1997 Wisconsin Act 27, section 9456 (3m) (b) is created to read:
AB61-SSA1,13,2317[1997 Wisconsin Act 27] Section 9456 (3m) (b) The treatment of sections 15.07
18(1) (b) 16., 15.105 (16), 16.968 (by Section 142am), 20.505 (1) (title) (by Section
19666h), 23.27 (3) (a) (by Section 769ad), 23.325 (1) (a), 36.09 (1) (e), 36.25 (12m)
20(intro.), 59.43 (2) (ag) 1. and (e), 59.72 (1) (a) and (b), (3) (intro.), (a), and (b) and (5)
21and 92.10 (4) (a) of the statutes, the repeal of sections 16.966 (4), 16.967, 20.505 (1)
22(ie), (ig), and (ij), 23.32 (2) (d), 59.43 (1) (u), and 59.72 (1) (am), (3) (c), and (4) of the
23statutes and Section 9101 (1) of this act take effect on July 1, 2005.
AB61-SSA1, s. 18 24Section 18 . Nonstatutory provisions.
AB61-SSA1,13,2525 (1) Proposed rules.
AB61-SSA1,14,6
1(a) Wireless 911 surcharge rules. The public service commission shall submit
2in proposed form the rules required under section 146.70 (3m) (f) 1. of the statutes,
3as created by this act, to the legislative council staff under section 227.15 (1) of the
4statutes no later than the 1st day of the 6th month beginning after the effective date
5of the rules promulgated under section 146.70 (3m) (d) 4. of the statutes, as created
6by this act.
AB61-SSA1,14,117 (b) Wireless 911 grant rules. The public service commission shall submit in
8proposed form the rules required under section 146.70 (3m) (d) 4. and (e) of the
9statutes, as created by this act, to the legislative council staff under section 227.15
10(1) of the statutes no later than the first day of the 7th month beginning after the
11effective date of this paragraph.
AB61-SSA1,14,1712 (2) Land information board project position. The authorized FTE positions
13for the department of administration are increased by 0.5 PR project positions, to be
14funded from the appropriation under section 20.505 (1) (q) of the statutes, as created
15by this act, for the purpose of the land information board to provide advice to the
16public service commission under section 146.70 (3m) (d) 1g. of the statutes, as created
17by this act.
AB61-SSA1, s. 19 18Section 19. Effective dates. This act takes effect on the day after publication,
19except as follows:
AB61-SSA1,14,2320 (1) Cooperative purchasing; wireless 911. The treatment of section 20.530 (1)
21(q) of the statutes and Section 1 of this act take effect on the day after publication,
22July 1, 2003, or the day after publication of the 2003-05 biennial budget act,
23whichever is later.
AB61-SSA1,15,3
1(2) Sunset of land information board. The repeal of section 20.505 (1) (q) of
2the statutes and the repeal and recreation of section 146.70 (3m) (d) 1g. of the
3statutes take effect on July 1, 2005.
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