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 1                    AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 149

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend Senate Bill 149  by  replacing
 3    the title with the following:
 4        "AN  ACT  to  amend the Emergency Telephone System Act by
 5    changing Section 15.6."; and

 6    by replacing everything after the enacting  clause  with  the
 7    following:

 8        "Section  5.   The  Emergency  Telephone  System  Act  is
 9    amended by changing Section 15.6 as follows:

10        (50 ILCS 750/15.6)
11        Sec. 15.6.  Enhanced 9-1-1 service;  business service.
12        (a)  After  June  30,  2000,  or  within  18 months after
13    enhanced 9-1-1 service becomes  available,  any  entity  that
14    installs  or  operates  a private business switch service and
15    provides  telecommunications  facilities   or   services   to
16    businesses  shall  assure that the system is connected to the
17    public switched network in  a  manner  that  calls  to  9-1-1
18    result  in automatic number and location identification.  For
19    buildings having their  own  street  address  and  containing
20    workspace   of   40,000   square   feet   or  less,  location
21    identification shall include the building's  street  address.
 
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 1    For  buildings having their own street address and containing
 2    workspace  of  more  than  40,000   square   feet,   location
 3    identification  shall  include  the building's street address
 4    and one distinct location identification  per  40,000  square
 5    feet of workspace. Separate buildings containing workspace of
 6    40,000  square  feet  or  less  having a common public street
 7    address shall have a  distinct  location  identification  for
 8    each building in addition to the street address.
 9        (b)  Exemptions.   Buildings containing workspace of more
10    than 40,000 square feet are exempt from the multiple location
11    identification requirements of subsection (a) if the building
12    maintains, at all times, alternative and  adequate  means  of
13    signaling  and  responding to emergencies.  Those means shall
14    include  a  telephone  system  that  provides  the   physical
15    location  of  9-1-1  calls  coming  from within the building.
16    Buildings under this exemption  must  provide  9-1-1  service
17    that provides the building's street address.
18        Buildings containing workspace of more than 40,000 square
19    feet   are   exempt  from  subsection  (a)  if  the  building
20    maintains, at all times, alternative and  adequate  means  of
21    signaling   and   responding   to  emergencies,  including  a
22    telephone system that provides the location of a  9-1-1  call
23    coming from within the building, and the building is serviced
24    by  its  own medical, fire and security personnel.  Buildings
25    under this exemption are subject to  emergency  phone  system
26    certification by the Illinois Commerce Commission.
27        Buildings  in  communities not serviced by enhanced 9-1-1
28    service are exempt  from  subsection  (a).  Private  business
29    switch service 9-1-1 service.
30        (a)    After  June  30,  1996, an entity that installs or
31    operates a new private business switch service or replaces an
32    existing  private  business  switch  service   and   provides
33    telecommunications facilities or services to businesses shall
34    provide  to  those business end users the same level of 9-1-1
 
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 1    service as  the  public  agency  and  the  telecommunications
 2    carrier  are  providing  to  other  business end users of the
 3    local 9-1-1 system.  This service shall include, but  not  be
 4    limited  to, the capability to identify the telephone number,
 5    extension number, and  the  physical  location  that  is  the
 6    source  of the call to the number designated as the emergency
 7    telephone  number.   After  June  30,  1999,   all   entities
 8    providing  or  operating  a  private  business switch service
 9    shall be in compliance with this Section.
10        (b)  The private business switch operator is  responsible
11    for  forwarding  end  user  automatic location identification
12    record information to the 9-1-1 system provider according  to
13    the  format,  frequency,  and  procedures established by that
14    system provider.
15        (c)  This  Act  does  not  apply  to  any  PBX  telephone
16    extension that uses radio transmissions to convey  electrical
17    signals  directly  between  the  telephone  extension and the
18    serving PBX.
19        (d)  An entity that violates this Section is guilty of  a
20    business  offense and shall be fined not less than $1,000 and
21    not more than $5,000.
22        (e)  Nothing  in  this  Section  shall  be  construed  to
23    preclude the Attorney General on behalf of the Commission  or
24    on his or her own initiative, or any other interested person,
25    from  seeking  judicial  relief,  by mandamus, injunction, or
26    otherwise, to compel compliance with this Section.
27        (f)  The  Commission  shall  promulgate  rules  for   the
28    administration of this Section no later than January 1, 2000.
29    
30    (Source:  P.A.  88-604,  eff.  9-1-94;  89-222,  eff. 1-1-96;
31    89-497, eff. 6-27-96.)

32        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
33    becoming law.".

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