LRB-1822/P1
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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Stinebrink, BB0492 - Next Generation 911 Cost Recovery
For 2023-2025 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
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Recovery of Next Generation 911 costs
Under current law, DMA must contract for the creation, operation, and maintenance of an emergency services IP network to implement what is known as “Next Generation 911,” a modern emergency communication network. This bill requires that the contracts include a provision that the contracted entity reimburse originating service providers, which are the entities that provide services used to connect to the emergency number system, for all their costs incurred in connecting to the Next Generation 911 system.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
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1. 256.35 (3s) (a) 2m. of the statutes is created to read:
256.35 (3s) (a) 2m. “Emergency services IP network provider” means an entity under contract with the department under par. (b) to create, operate, and maintain an emergency services IP network.
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2. 256.35 (3s) (a) 3m. of the statutes is created to read:
256.35 (3s) (a) 3m. “Next Generation 911 costs” means the costs incurred in the operation of a Next Generation 911 emergency number system by an originating service provider and, if applicable, the 3rd-party provider it uses to connect to an emergency services IP network.
****Note: “Originating service provider” does not need to be defined here because it's already defined in s. 256.35 (1) (es) for all of s. 256.35 using the definition you provided.
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3. 256.35 (3s) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
256.35 (3s) (b) Emergency services IP network contracts. The department shall invite bids to be submitted under s. 16.75 and, from the appropriation under s. 20.465 (3) (qm), contract for the creation, operation, and maintenance of an emergency services IP network that to the greatest extent feasible relies on industry standards and existing infrastructure to provide all public safety answering points with the network necessary to implement Next Generation 911. Any contract under this paragraph shall include a requirement that the emergency services IP network provider reimburse any originating service provider or, if applicable, the 3rd-party providers it uses to connect to an emergency services IP network for all Next Generation 911 costs incurred by the originating service provider or, if applicable, the 3rd-party provider.
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4. 256.35 (3s) (bf) of the statutes is created to read:
256.35 (3s) (bf) Next Generation 911 cost recovery. An emergency services IP network provider shall reimburse any originating service provider or, if applicable, the 3rd-party provider it uses to connect to an emergency services IP network for all Next Generation 911 costs incurred by the originating service provider or, if applicable, the 3rd-party provider.
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