_____________________________________________
SUBSTITUTE
SENATE BILL 5335
_____________________________________________
Passed
Legislature ‑ 2001 Regular Session
State
of Washington 57th Legislature 2001 Regular Session
By
READ FIRST TIME 02/15/01. Revising the authority of the statewide enhanced 911 program to support
the statewide enhanced 911 system.
_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.
18
p.
1 SSB 5335.PL
_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,)) support the statewide coordination
and
16 management of the enhanced 911 system and to help supplement,
17 within available funds, the operational costs of the system. Funds
18 shall not be distributed to any county that has not imposed the
19 maximum county enhanced 911 taxes allowed under RCW 82.14B.030 (1)
20 and (2). The state enhanced 911 coordinator, with the advice and
21 assistance of the enhanced 911 advisory committee, is authorized
22 to enter into statewide agreements to improve the efficiency of
23 enhanced 911 services for all counties and shall specify by
rule
24 the additional purposes for which moneys, if available,
may be
25 expended from this account.
26 NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. A
new section is added to chapter 38.52
27 RCW to read as follows:
28 In specifying rules defining the purposes for which available
29 moneys may be expended, the state enhanced 911 coordinator, with
30 the advice and assistance of the enhanced 911 advisory committee,
31 shall consider base needs of individual counties for specific
32 assistance. Priorities for available enhanced 911 funding are as
33 follows: (1) To assure that 911 dialing is operational statewide;
34 (2) to assist counties as necessary to assure that they can
35 achieve a basic service level for 911 operations; and (3) to
36 assist counties as practicable to acquire items of a capital
37 nature appropriate to increasing 911 effectiveness.
SSB
5335.PL p. 2
_1 NEW SECTION. Sec. 4.
This act is necessary for the immediate
_2 preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of
_3 the state government and its existing public institutions, and
_4 takes effect July 1, 2001.
‑‑‑
END ‑‑‑
p.
3 SSB 5335.PL
