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 1        AN ACT concerning telecommunications.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.  The Wireless Emergency Telephone  Safety  Act
 5    is amended by changing Section 10 as follows:

 6        (50 ILCS 751/10)
 7        (Section scheduled to be repealed on April 1, 2005)
 8        Sec. 10.  Definitions.  In this Act:
 9        "Emergency   telephone   system   board"  means  a  board
10    appointed by the  corporate  authorities  of  any  county  or
11    municipality  that  provides for the management and operation
12    of a  9-1-1 system within the scope of the duties and  powers
13    prescribed by the Emergency Telephone System Act.
14        "Master  street  address  guide"  means  the computerized
15    geographical database that consists of all street and address
16    data within a 9-1-1 system.
17        "Public safety agency" means a functional division  of  a
18    public  agency  that provides fire fighting, police, medical,
19    or other emergency services.  For the  purpose  of  providing
20    wireless  service  to  users  of 9-1-1 emergency services, as
21    expressly provided for in this Act, the Department  of  State
22    Police may be considered a public safety agency.
23        "Qualified  governmental  entity"  means  a unit of local
24    government authorized to provide 9-1-1 services  pursuant  to
25    the   Emergency  Telephone  System  Act  where  no  emergency
26    telephone system board exists.
27        "Statewide wireless emergency  9-1-1  system"  means  all
28    areas  of the State where an emergency telephone system board
29    or, in the absence of an emergency telephone system board,  a
30    qualified  governmental entity has not declared its intention
31    for one or more of its  public  safety  answering  points  to
 
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 1    serve  as  a  primary  wireless 9-1-1 public safety answering
 2    point for its jurisdiction.  The operator  of  the  statewide
 3    wireless  emergency  9-1-1  system shall be the Department of
 4    State Police.
 5        "Wireless carrier" means a provider of two-way  cellular,
 6    broadband PCS, geographic area 800 MHZ and 900 MHZ Commercial
 7    Mobile  Radio Service (CMRS), Wireless Communications Service
 8    (WCS), or other Commercial Mobile Radio  Service  (CMRS),  as
 9    defined  by  the  Federal Communications Commission, offering
10    radio communications that may provide  fixed,  mobile,  radio
11    location,  or satellite communication services to individuals
12    or  businesses  within  its  assigned  spectrum   block   and
13    geographical  area  or  that  offers real-time, two-way voice
14    service that  is  interconnected  with  the  public  switched
15    network, including a reseller of such service.
16        "Wireless  enhanced 9-1-1" means the ability to relay the
17    telephone number of  the  originator  of  a  9-1-1  call  and
18    location  information  and  the  location of the cell site or
19    base station receiving a 9-1-1 call from any  mobile  handset
20    or text telephone device accessing the wireless system to the
21    designated  wireless  public  safety  answering  point as set
22    forth in the order of the Federal Communications  Commission,
23    FCC  Docket  No.  94-102,  adopted  June  12,  1996,  with an
24    effective  date  of  October  1,  1996,  and  any  subsequent
25    amendment  thereto  through  the  use  of  automatic   number
26    identification and pseudo-automatic number identification.
27        "Wireless   public  safety  answering  point"  means  the
28    functional division of an emergency telephone  system  board,
29    qualified  governmental  entity,  or  the Department of State
30    Police accepting wireless 9-1-1 calls.
31        "Wireless subscriber" means an individual  or  entity  to
32    whom  a  wireless service account or number has been assigned
33    by a wireless carrier.
34    (Source: P.A. 91-660, eff. 12-22-99.)