256.35(3m)(e)
(e)
Supplemental grants. The commission shall promulgate rules for making supplemental grants from the appropriation under
s. 20.155 (3) (q) to counties that submit joint applications required under
par. (c) 4. The rules shall establish the supplemental grants in amounts that provide an incentive for counties to submit joint applications. The rules may not impose any limits on the use of a supplemental grant and shall allow the commission to make the grants in installments.
256.35(3m)(em)
(em)
Fund limitation. Except for grants under
par. (d) or
(e), the commission may not make any distribution from the wireless 911 fund to any person.
256.35(3m)(f)1.1. The commission shall promulgate rules requiring each wireless provider to impose the same monthly surcharge for each telephone number of a customer that has a billable address in this state, except that the rules shall adjust the amount of the surcharge that is imposed on customers who prepay for service to ensure that such customers pay an amount that is comparable to the monthly amount paid by other customers. The rules shall require the surcharge to be imposed during the 3-year period beginning on the first day of the 2nd month beginning after the effective date of the rules. The amount of the surcharge shall be sufficient for the commission to administer and make the grants under
par. (d) and the supplemental grants under
par. (e). The rules shall require wireless providers to pay the surcharge to the commission for deposit in the wireless 911 fund.
256.35(3m)(f)2.
2. The commission may promulgate rules that increase or decrease the surcharge, except that the commission may not increase the surcharge more than once per year and any increase must be uniform statewide.
256.35(3m)(f)3.
3. A wireless provider shall identify the surcharge on a customer's bill on a separate line that consists of the words “federal wireless 911 mandate fee."
256.35(3m)(f)4.
4. The commission may bring an action to collect a surcharge that is not paid by a customer and the customer's wireless provider is not liable for the unpaid surcharge.
256.35(3m)(g)
(g)
Confidentiality of information. The commission shall withhold from public inspection any information received under this subsection that would aid a competitor of a wireless provider in competition with the wireless provider.
256.35(3m)(h)
(h)
Other charges prohibited. No local government or state agency, as defined in
s. 16.310 (1), except the commission, may require a wireless provider to collect or pay a surcharge or fee related to wireless emergency telephone service.
256.35(3m)(i)
(i)
Commission authority. Nothing in this section affects the exemption from commission authority for commercial mobile radio service providers in
s. 196.202.
256.35(3m)(j)
(j)
Sunset. This subsection does not apply after the first day of the 42nd month beginning after the effective date of the rules promulgated under
par. (f) 1.
256.35(4)
(4) Departmental advisory authority. The department may provide information to public agencies, public safety agencies and telecommunications utilities relating to the development and operation of emergency number systems.
256.35(6)
(6) Telecommunications utility requirements. A telecommunications utility serving a public agency or group of public agencies which have established a sophisticated system under
sub. (2) (e) shall provide by December 31, 1985, or upon establishing a system, whichever is later, such public agency or group of public agencies access to the telephone numbers of subscribers and the addresses associated with the numbers as needed to implement automatic number identification and automatic location identification in a sophisticated system, but such information shall at all times remain under the direct control of the telecommunications utility and a telecommunications utility may not be required to release a number and associated address to a public agency or group of public agencies unless a call to the telephone number “911" has been made from such number. The costs of such access shall be paid by the public agency or group of public agencies.
256.35(7)
(7) Liability exemption. A telecommunications utility, wireless provider, as defined in
sub. (3m) (a) 6., or local government, as defined in
sub. (3m) (a) 4., shall not be liable to any person who uses an emergency number system created under this section or makes an emergency telephone call initially routed to a wireless public safety answering point, as defined in
sub. (3m) (a) 7.
256.35(9)(a)(a) In implementing a basic or sophisticated system under this section, public agencies combined under
sub. (2) (d) shall annually enter into a joint powers agreement. The agreement shall be applicable on a daily basis and shall provide that if an emergency services vehicle is dispatched in response to a request through the basic or sophisticated system established under this section, such vehicle shall render its services to the persons needing the services regardless of whether the vehicle is operating outside the vehicle's normal jurisdictional boundaries.
256.35(9)(b)
(b) Public agencies and public safety agencies which have contiguous or overlapping boundaries and which have established separate basic or sophisticated systems under this section shall annually enter into the agreement required under
par. (a).
256.35(9)(c)
(c) Each public agency or public safety agency shall cause a copy of the annual agreement required by
pars. (a) and
(b) to be filed with the department of justice. If a public agency or public safety agency fails to enter into such agreement or to file copies thereof, the department of justice shall commence judicial proceedings to enforce compliance with this subsection.
256.35(10)(a)(a) Any person who intentionally dials the telephone number “911" to report an emergency, knowing that the fact situation which he or she reports does not exist, shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $600 or imprisoned not more than 90 days or both for the first offense and is guilty of a Class H felony for any other offense committed within 4 years after the first offense.
256.35(10)(b)
(b) Any person who discloses or uses, for any purpose not related to the operation of a basic or sophisticated system, any information contained in the database of that system shall be fined not more than $10,000 for each occurrence.
256.35(11)
(11) Plans. Every public agency establishing a basic or sophisticated system under this section shall submit tentative plans for the establishment of the system as required under this section to every local exchange telecommunications utility providing service within the respective boundaries of such public agency. The public agency shall submit final plans for the establishment of the system to the telecommunications utility and shall provide for the implementation of the plans.
256.35 History
History: 1977 c. 392;
1979 c. 34,
361;
1981 c. 20 s.
2202 (1) (b);
1981 c. 383;
1983 a. 27;
1983 a. 53 s.
114;
1983 a. 189 s.
329 (31);
1985 a. 29,
120;
1985 a. 297 ss.
12,
76;
1985 a. 332;
1987 a. 27,
403;
1989 a. 31;
1991 a. 39,
267;
1993 a. 16,
388,
496;
1997 a. 218,
283;
1999 a. 185;
2001 a. 109;
2003 a. 48,
320;
2005 a. 25;
2007 a. 130 ss.
160 to
165; Stats. 2007 s. 256.35;
2009 a. 28;
2009 a. 180 s.
126;
2011 a. 32,
275.
256.35 Cross-reference
Cross-reference: See also ch.
PSC 173, Wis. adm. code.
256.40
256.40
Opioid antagonists. 256.40(1)(a)
(a) “Fire fighter" means any person employed by the state or any political subdivision as a member or officer of a fire department or a member of a volunteer fire department, including the state fire marshal and deputies.
256.40(1)(b)
(b) “Law enforcement agency" means an agency of a federally recognized Indian tribe or band or a state or political subdivision of a state, whose purpose is the detection and prevention of crime and enforcement of laws or ordinances.
256.40(1)(c)
(c) “Law enforcement officer" means any person employed by a law enforcement agency who is authorized to make arrests for violations of the laws or ordinances that the person is employed to enforce.
256.40(1)(d)
(d) “Opioid-related drug overdose" means a condition including extreme physical illness, decreased level of consciousness, respiratory depression, coma, or the ceasing of respiratory or circulatory function resulting from the consumption or use of an opioid, or another substance with which an opioid was combined.
256.40(2)(a)(a) Subject to
par. (b), the department shall permit all emergency medical technicians to administer naloxone or another opioid antagonist to individuals who are undergoing or who are believed to be undergoing an opioid-related drug overdose.
256.40(2)(b)
(b) The department shall require emergency medical technicians to undergo any training necessary to safely and properly administer naloxone or another opioid antagonist as specified under
par. (a).
256.40(2)(c)
(c) Every ambulance service provider shall do all of the following:
256.40(2)(c)1.
1. Ensure that every emergency medical technician under the ambulance service provider's supervision who has obtained the training necessary to safely and properly administer naloxone or another opioid antagonist has a supply of naloxone or the other opioid antagonist available for administration when he or she is performing his or her duties as an emergency medical technician, to the extent that naloxone or the other opioid antagonist is available to the ambulance service provider.
256.40(2)(c)2.
2. Require each certified first responder and emergency medical technician under the supervision of the ambulance service provider to, in the manner prescribed by the department, keep a record of each instance in which the certified first responder or emergency medical technician administers naloxone or another opioid antagonist to an individual who is undergoing or who is believed to be undergoing an opioid-related drug overdose.
256.40(2)(c)3.
3. Submit records under
subd. 2. to the department in the manner prescribed by the department.
256.40(3)(a)(a) A law enforcement agency or fire department may enter into a written agreement to affiliate with an ambulance service provider or a physician for all of the following purposes:
256.40(3)(a)1.
1. Obtaining a supply of naloxone or another opioid antagonist.
256.40(3)(a)2.
2. Allowing law enforcement officers and fire fighters to obtain the training necessary to safely and properly administer naloxone or another opioid antagonist to individuals who are undergoing or who are believed to be undergoing an opioid-related drug overdose.
256.40(3)(b)
(b) A law enforcement officer or fire fighter who, reasonably believing another person to be undergoing an opioid-related drug overdose, administers naloxone or another opioid antagonist to that person shall be immune from civil or criminal liability for any outcomes resulting from the administration of the opioid antagonist to that person, if the law enforcement officer or fire fighter is acting pursuant to an agreement and any training obtained under
par. (a).
256.40 History
History: 2013 a. 200.
