ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor                            S.B. 549

9-1-1 system at a county's discretion; altering the membership of the
Emergency Number Systems Board; requiring the Board to establish and
publish a certain plan for the deployment of certain wireless enhanced 9-1-1
services by a certain date; requiring the Board to review and approve or
disapprove a certain request from a certain county for a certain exemption;
authorizing the Board to require a certain audit; authorizing a certain telephone
company or 9-1-1 service carrier to report certain information confidentially;
requiring the Board to conduct a certain review; increasing a certain fee for
9-1-1 telephone service; increasing a certain additional charge a county may
impose; requiring the Board to establish certain procedures to take effect on or
after a certain date regarding the use of certain money by certain counties;
making certain provisions of this Act subject to a certain contingency; requiring
the Governor to provide a certain plan for repayment to the 911 Trust Fund;
defining a certain term; altering a certain definition; and generally relating to
9-1-1 telephone services requiring the establishment of wireless enhanced 911
service in the State in accordance with certain orders; altering the membership of
the Emergency Number Systems Board; requiring the Board to establish
guidelines for the deployment of wireless enhanced 911 service, and to develop,
with input from counties, an implementation schedule for the deployment of
wireless enhanced 911 service; authorizing the Department of Public Safety and
Correctional Services to provide certain staff support for the Board; authorizing a
member of the Board to receive reimbursement for certain expenses; providing
that certain information is confidential, privileged, and proprietary and may not
be disclosed; altering a certain fee for 9-1-1 telephone service; requiring the
Board to adopt certain procedures for a certain audit; increasing a certain
additional charge a county may impose; extending certain immunity to certain
providers of certain services; altering and adding certain definitions; providing
for the expiration of certain Board member terms; restricting the use of 9-1-1
trust funds by counties to certain purposes; requiring the Board to establish
certain procedures to take effect on or after a certain date regarding the use of
certain money by certain counties; requiring the Department to submit a certain
report; requiring the Board to investigate the availability of certain funds, to
submit a certain report, and to make certain recommendations; requiring the
Governor to provide a certain plan; making certain provisions of this Act subject
to a certain contingency; and generally relating to establishment of wireless
enhanced 911 service in the State.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Public Safety

Section 1-301, 1-304, 1-305(b), 1-305, 1-306, 1-307, and 1-310 and 1-308
through 1-312

Annotated Code of Maryland

(As enacted by Chapter_____(S.B. 1) of the Acts of the General Assembly of

2003)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

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