This bill does the following:
1. It updates and adds terminology to be consistent with modernized 9-1-1 systems and federal standards;
2. It clarifies rule-making authority by designating the Public Utilities Commission as the entity responsible for rulemaking instead of the Emergency Services Communication Bureau within the commission and makes all rulemaking under the emergency services communication laws routine technical;
3. It reorganizes the provisions of law related to 9-1-1 funding;
4. It expands the granting authority of the bureau to allow grants, subject to available funds, to be used to consolidate 2 or more public safety answering points and dispatch centers into a new regional public safety answering point and dispatch center or transfer a public safety answering point and all of its dispatch services to another existing public safety answering point. It also changes the allowable funding cap for nonrecurring costs to $1,000,000 per biennium;
5. It removes the requirement that the bureau reimburse local exchange carriers and cellular and wireless telecommunications service providers for eligible expenses incurred by the carriers and service providers;
6. It removes the requirement regarding the inclusion of 9-1-1 information in telephone directories; and
7. It expands the application of provisions related to the information required to be provided to the commission in order to maintain the 9-1-1 database and services and the coordination of 9-1-1 service from local exchange carriers only to originating service providers.

Statutes affected:
Bill Text LD 1436, HP 945: 5.12004, 25.2925, 17-A.509, 25.2921, 25.2923, 25.2926, 25.2927, 25.2929, 25.2930, 25.2931, 25.2932, 25.2933, 25.2934, 25.2935, 30-A.3110, 30-A.7062, 30-A.7501, 32.85, 32.98, 35-A.120, 35-A.7104, 35-A.7201, 36.191, 39-A.201