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SENATE BILL 5335
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State of Washington 57th Legislature 2001 Regular Session
By Senators Snyder, Deccio, T. Sheldon, Morton, B. Sheldon, Hochstatter, Parlette, Sheahan, Hewitt, Haugen, Oke, McCaslin and Honeyford
Read first time 01/19/2001. Referred to Committee on Economic Development & Telecommunications.
_1 AN ACT Relating to the authority of the statewide enhanced 911
_2 program to support the statewide enhanced 911 system; amending RCW
_3 38.52.540; adding a new section to chapter 38.52 RCW; creating a
_4 new section; providing an effective date; and declaring an
_5 emergency.
_6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
_7 NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The legislature finds that the statewide
_8 emergency communications network of enhanced 911 telephone
_9 service, which allows an immediate display of a caller's
10 identification and location, has served to further the safety,
11 health, and welfare of the state's citizens, and has saved lives.
12 The legislature further finds that statewide operation and
13 management of the enhanced 911 system will create efficiencies of
14 operation and permit greater local control of county 911
15 operations, and further that some counties will continue to need
16 assistance from the state to maintain minimum enhanced 911 service
17 levels.
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_1 Sec. 2. RCW 38.52.540 and 1998 c 304 s 14 are each amended to read
_2 as follows:
_3 The enhanced 911 account is created in the state treasury. All
_4 receipts from the state enhanced 911 excise tax imposed by RCW
_5 82.14B.030 shall be deposited into the account. Moneys in the
_6 account shall be used only to help ((implement and))
operate
_7 enhanced 911 statewide. ((Moneys in the account may
be used to
_8 provide salary assistance on a temporary basis not to
exceed three
_9 years to counties with a population of less than
seventy-five
10 thousand that need additional resources to cover
unfunded costs
11 that can be shown to result from handling 911 calls.
Moneys in the
12 account may be used to assist multicounty regions,
including
13 ongoing salary assistance for multicounty regions
consisting of
14 counties with populations of less than seventy-five
15 thousand. However,)) Funds shall not be
distributed to any county
16 that has not imposed the maximum county enhanced 911 taxes allowed
17 under RCW 82.14B.030 (1) and (2). The state enhanced 911
18 coordinator, with the advice and assistance of the enhanced 911
19 advisory committee, shall specify by rule the purposes for which
20 moneys may be expended from this account.
21 NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. A new section is added to chapter 38.52
22 RCW to read as follows:
23 In specifying rules defining the purposes for which moneys may
24 be expended, the state enhanced 911 coordinator, with the advice
25 and assistance of the enhanced 911 advisory committee, is
26 authorized to enter into statewide agreements to improve the
27 efficiency of 911 services for all counties and shall consider
28 base needs of individual counties for specific
29 assistance. Priorities for enhanced 911 funding are: First, to
30 assure that 911 dialing is operational statewide; second, to
31 assist as necessary to assure that counties can achieve a basic
32 service level for 911 operations; and third, to assist counties as
33 practicable to acquire items of a capital nature appropriate to
34 increasing 911 effectiveness.
35 NEW SECTION. Sec. 4. This act is necessary for the immediate
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_1 preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of
_2 the state government and its existing public institutions, and
_3 takes effect July 1, 2001.
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