Senate Bill No. 225–Committee on Government Affairs

 

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AN ACT relating to telephone services; repealing the prospective expiration of certain provisions concerning surcharges on telephone services in certain counties for the enhancement of telephone systems for reporting emergencies in those counties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

   Section 1.  Section 6 of chapter 427, Statutes of Nevada 1995, as last amended by chapter 375, Statutes of Nevada 1999, at page 1686, is hereby amended to read as follows:

   Sec. 6.  This act becomes effective on January 1, 1996 . [, and expires by limitation on December 31, 2001.]

   Sec. 2. Section 2 of chapter 375, Statutes of Nevada 1999, at page

 1686, is hereby amended to read as follows:

   Sec. 2.  [1.] This act becomes effective upon passage and

 approval.

   [2.  Notwithstanding the provisions of NRS 244A.7643, a board of

 county commissioners that has imposed a surcharge pursuant to NRS

 244A.7643 shall not impose such a surcharge on the mobile

 telephone service provided to each customer of that service who

 resides in the county on or after the date on which the advisory

 committee established in that county pursuant to NRS 244A.7645

 notifies the board of county commissioners that the enhancement of

 the telephone system for reporting an emergency in that county has

 been completed in such a manner that when a person reports an

 emergency by placing a call on a mobile telephone, the:

   (a) Identification of the person who pays for that mobile telephone

 service; and

   (b) Location of the antenna that receives and transmits that

call,

are transmitted to the location that has been designated to receive calls

 that report an emergency and to route them to the appropriate

 personnel for the provision of emergency services.

   3.  A board of county commissioners that has imposed a surcharge

 pursuant to NRS 244A.7643 shall notify in a timely manner each

 telephone company and supplier that collects such a surcharge to

 cease collecting the surcharge:

   (a) On each access line or trunk line of each customer to the local

 exchange of any telephone company providing those lines in the

 county on or after December 31, 2001.

   (b) On the mobile telephone service provided to each customer of

 that service who resides in the county on or after the earlier of the

 following dates:

     (1) December 31, 2001; or

     (2) The date on which the advisory committee established in that

 county pursuant to NRS 244A.7645 notifies the board of county

 commissioners of that county that the enhancement of the telephone

system for reporting an emergency in that county has been completed

in the manner described in subsection 2.]

   Sec. 3.  Section 55 of chapter 530, Statutes of Nevada 1999, at page

 2719, is hereby amended to read as follows:

   Sec. 55.  [1.] This act becomes effective upon passage and

 approval.

   [2.  Section 39 of this act expires by limitation on December 31,

 2001.]

   Sec. 4.  This act becomes effective upon passage and approval.

 

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