BILL REQ. #:  S-1195.1 

Read first time 02/04/2005.   Referred to Committee on Financial Institutions, Housing & Consumer Protection.

     AN ACT Relating to updating enhanced 911 services on private shared telecommunications services; amending RCW 80.36.560; and creating a new section.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   The legislature finds that the current law applying to enhanced 911 service on multiline telephone systems is based on old technology, and that the law should be annually reviewed and updated to allow the deployment of new technologies.

Sec. 2   RCW 80.36.560 and 1995 c 243 s 5 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) By January 1, 1997, or one year after enhanced 911 service becomes available or a private switch automatic location identification service approved by the Washington utilities and transportation commission is available from the serving local exchange telecommunications company, whichever is later, any commercial shared services provider of private shared telecommunications services for hire or resale to the general public to multiple unaffiliated business users from a single system shall assure that such a system is connected to the public switched network such that calls to 911 result in automatic location identification for each telephone in a format that is compatible with the existing or planned county enhanced 911 system. This section shall apply only to providers of service to businesses containing a physical area exceeding twenty-five thousand square feet, or businesses on more than one floor of a building, or businesses in multiple buildings.
     (2) The adjutant general, in consultation with the state enhanced 911 coordinator, the state fire protection board, and other interested parties, shall annually review new technologies that relate to this section. If the adjutant general determines that this section should be amended to incorporate new technologies, a recommendation to the legislature shall be made. The adjutant general shall report the recommendations to the legislature sixty days before the start of any regular legislative session.