BILL NUMBER: SB 983	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Bowen

                        FEBRUARY 26, 1999

   An act to amend Section 2892 of the Public Utilities Code,
relating to telecommunications.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 983, as introduced, Bowen.    Telecommunications:  commercial
mobile radio service:  emergency calls.
   Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission to require
that every facilities-based cellular service provider provide access
for end users on its system to the local emergency telephone services
described in a specified provision of the Warren-911-Emergency
Assistance Act, that they utilize the "911" code as the primary
access number for those services, and that "911" calls from cellular
units be routed to the nearest appropriate California Highway Patrol
communications center.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change in those
provisions.
   Vote:  majority.  Appropriation:  no.  Fiscal committee:  no.
State-mandated local program:  no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 2892 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to
read:
   2892.  The commission shall, by rule or order, require that every
facilities-based cellular service provider provide access for end
users on its system to the local emergency telephone services
described in Section 53100 of the Government Code, that they shall
utilize the "911" code as the primary access number for those
services, and that "911" calls from cellular units shall be routed to
the nearest appropriate  Department of the  California
Highway Patrol communications center.  In addition, the commission,
by rule or order, shall require that every cellular service provider
include in its tariffs a provision to the effect that there shall be
no airtime or similar usage charge for calls placed from a cellular
unit to the emergency telephone services system.