SENATE BILL No. 58

 

 

January 25, 2005, Introduced by Senator CHERRY and referred to the Committee on Technology and Energy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1986 PA 32, entitled

 

"Emergency telephone service enabling act,"

 

(MCL 484.1101 to 484.1717) by adding section 408a.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 408a. (1) Any entity that installs or operates a private

 

business switch service and provides telecommunications facilities

 

or services to businesses shall assure that the system is connected

 

to the public switched network in a manner that calls to 9-1-1

 

result in automatic number and location identification.

 

     (2) For buildings having their own street address and

 

containing workspace of 40,000 square feet or less, location

 

identification shall include the building's street address. For

 

buildings having their own street address and containing workspace


 

of more than 40,000 square feet, location identification shall

 

include the building's street address and 1 distinct location

 

identification per 40,000 square feet of workspace. Separate

 

buildings containing workspace of 40,000 square feet or less having

 

a common public street address shall have a distinct location

 

identification for each building in addition to the street address.

 

     (3) Buildings containing workspace of more than 40,000 square

 

feet are exempt from the multiple location identification

 

requirements of this section if the building maintains, at all

 

times, alternative and adequate means of signaling and responding

 

to emergencies. Those means shall include, but not be limited to, a

 

telephone system that provides the physical location of 9-1-1 calls

 

coming from within the building. Health care facilities are

 

presumed to meet the requirements of this section if the facilities

 

are staffed with medical or nursing personnel 24 hours per day and

 

if an alternative means of providing information about the source

 

of an emergency call exists. Buildings provided for under this

 

subsection must provide 9-1-1 service that provides the building's

 

street address.

 

     (4) Buildings containing workspace of more than 40,000 square

 

feet are exempt from this section if the building maintains, at all

 

times, alternative and adequate means of signaling and responding

 

to emergencies, including a telephone system that provides the

 

location of a 9-1-1 call coming from within the building, and the

 

building is serviced by its own medical, fire, and security

 

personnel.

 

     (5) Buildings in communities not serviced by enhanced 9-1-1


 

service are exempt from this section.

 

     (6) This section does not apply to any PBX telephone extension

 

that uses radio transmissions to convey electrical signals directly

 

between the telephone extension and the serving PBX.

 

     (7) The commission, following a contested case, shall issue an

 

order establishing the means and timelines for the development and

 

implementation of location technology required under this section.

 

The order shall include equipment standards for providers and

 

private entities to ensure that 9-1-1 dispatchers can identify the

 

exact location of persons making emergency calls within large

 

buildings or from a point within a private exchange or

 

telecommunication system.

 

     (8) The CMRS suppliers, local exchange providers, and private

 

entities may apply to the fund created under section 407 to recover

 

costs required as a result of the order issued under this section.