pa007999

Act No. 79

Public Acts of 1999

Approved by the Governor

June 28, 1999

Filed with the Secretary of State

June 28, 1999

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 28, 1999

STATE OF MICHIGAN

90TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 1999

Introduced by Reps. Middaugh, DeHart, Birkholz, Gilbert, Howell, LaSata, Tabor, Cameron Brown, Ruth Johnson, Garcia, Kuipers, Jellema, Caul, Scranton, Raczkowski, Toy and Bovin

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4659

AN ACT to amend 1986 PA 32, entitled "An act to provide for the establishment of emergency telephone districts; to provide for the installation, operation, modification, and maintenance of universal emergency number service systems; to provide for the imposition and collection of certain charges; to provide the powers and duties of certain state agencies, local units of government, public officers, telephone service suppliers, and others; to create an emergency telephone service committee; to provide remedies; to provide penalties; and to repeal certain parts of this act on specific dates," (MCL 484.1101 to 484.1604) by adding chapter VII; and to repeal acts and parts of acts.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

CHAPTER VII

Sec. 711. As used in this chapter, "committee" means the emergency telephone service committee created in section712.

Sec. 712. An emergency telephone service committee is created within the department of state police to develop statewide standards and model system considerations and make other recommendations for emergency telephone services.

Sec. 713. (1) The committee shall consist of 21 members as follows:

(a) The director of the department of state police or his or her designated representative.

(b) The director of the department of consumer and industry services or his or her designated representative.

(d) The president of the Michigan sheriffs' association or his or her designated representative.

(e) The president of the Michigan association of chiefs of police or his or her designated representative.

(f) The president of the Michigan fire chiefs association or his or her designated representative.

(g) The executive director of the Michigan association of counties or his or her designated representative.

(h) The executive director of the deputy sheriffs association of Michigan or his or her designated representative.

(i) Three members of the general public, 1 member to be appointed by the governor, 1 member to be appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives, and 1 member to be appointed by the majority leader of the senate. The 3members of the general public shall have expertise relating to telephone systems, rural health care concerns, or emergency radio communications, dispatching, and services. The members of the general public shall serve for terms of 2 years.

(j) The executive director of the Michigan fraternal order of police or his or her designated representative.

(k) The president of the Michigan state police troopers association or his or her designated representative.

(l) The president of the Michigan chapter of the associated public safety communications officers or his or her designated representative.

(m) The president of the Michigan chapter of the national emergency number association or his or her designated representative.

(n) The president of the telecommunications association of Michigan or his or her designated representative.

(o) The executive director of the Upper Peninsula emergency medical services corporation or his or her designated representative.

(p) The executive director of the Michigan association of ambulance services or his or her designated representative.

(q) The president of the Michigan state firefighters union or his or her designated representative.

(r) The president of the Michigan communications directors association or his or her designated representative.

(s) One representative of commercial mobile radio service, to be appointed by the governor.

(2) A majority of the members of the committee constitute a quorum for the purpose of conducting business and exercising the powers of the committee. Official action of the committee may be taken upon a vote of a majority of the members of the committee.

(3) The committee shall elect 1 of its members who is not a member of the wireline or commercial mobile radio service industry to serve as chairperson. The chairperson of the committee shall serve for a term of 1 year.

(4) The committee may adopt, amend, and rescind bylaws, rules, and regulations for the conduct of its business.

(5) Members of the committee shall serve without compensation, but shall be entitled to actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of official duties under this chapter.

Sec. 714. (1) The committee shall do all of the following:

(a) Organize and adopt standards governing the committee's formal and informal procedures.

(b) Meet not less than 4 times per year at a place and time specified by the chairperson.

(d) Provide recommendations to public safety answering points and secondary public safety answering points on statewide technical and operational standards for PSAPs and secondary PSAPs.

(e) Provide recommendations to public agencies concerning model systems to be considered in preparing a 9-1-1 service plan.

(f) Perform other duties as necessary to promote successful development, implementation, and operation of 9-1-1 systems across the state.

(2) The department of state police and the public service commission shall provide staff assistance to the committee as necessary to carry out the committee's duties under this section.

Sec. 715. The business which the committee may perform shall be conducted at a public meeting of the committee held in compliance with the open meetings act, 1976 PA 267, MCL 15.261 to 15.275. Public notice of the time, date, and place of the meeting shall be given in the manner required by the open meetings act, 1976 PA 267, MCL 15.261 to 15.275.

Sec. 716. Subject to section 410(5), a writing prepared, owned, used, in the possession of, or retained by the committee in the performance of an official function shall be made available to the public in compliance with the freedom of information act, 1976 PA 442, MCL 15.231 to 15.246.

Sec. 717. This act is repealed effective December 31, 2006.

Enacting section 1. Enacting section 3 of 1994 PA 29 is repealed.

Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 90th Legislature are enacted into law:

(a) House Bill No. 4658.

(b) Senate Bill No. 492.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives.

Secretary of the Senate.

Approved

Governor.