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HB 1331 Wireless Enhanced Public Safety Telephone Service Act; created.

Introduced by: Gladys B. Keating | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

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Wireless Enhanced Public Safety Telephone Service Act. Requires Virginia's cellular telephone and personal communications systems providers to collect monthly billing surcharges of 75 cents upon each telephone number assigned by a provider to a commercial mobile radio service number (which includes cellular telephone service and personal communication service) to their customers for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a federally mandated emergency 911 system for these customers. These surcharges are paid into a wireless 911 fund and then distributed to counties and municipalities that operate public safety answering points and to service providers to defray capital costs and operating expenses incurred in providing service to wireless E-911 calls. The bill also establishes an advisory board which will assist in the administration of the wireless 911 fund, oversee the distribution of funds, and advise the General Assembly, no later than December 1, 2001, on the adequacy of the fund to make qualifying payments. The bill has a sunset clause; the provisions expire on July 1, 2002.


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