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| To amend section 4931.40 and to enact section 4931.55 | 1 |
| of the Revised Code to require certain | 2 |
| technological improvements and updates for 9-1-1 | 3 |
| systems in Ohio. | 4 |
| Section 1. That section 4931.40 be amended and section | 5 |
| 4931.55 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows: | 6 |
| Sec. 4931.40. As used in sections 4931.40 to 4931.70 of the | 7 |
| Revised Code: | 8 |
| (A) "9-1-1 system" means a system through which individuals | 9 |
| can request emergency service using the telephone number 9-1-1. | 10 |
| (B) "Basic 9-1-1" means a 9-1-1 system in which a caller | 11 |
| provides information on the nature of and the location of an | 12 |
| emergency, and the personnel receiving the call must determine the | 13 |
| appropriate emergency service provider to respond at that | 14 |
| location. | 15 |
| (C) "Enhanced 9-1-1" means a 9-1-1 system capable of | 16 |
| providing both enhanced wireline 9-1-1 and wireless enhanced | 17 |
| 9-1-1. | 18 |
| (D) "Enhanced wireline 9-1-1" means a 9-1-1 system in which | 19 |
| the wireline telephone network, in providing wireline 9-1-1, | 20 |
| automatically routes the call to emergency service providers that | 21 |
| serve the location from which the call is made and immediately | 22 |
| provides to personnel answering the 9-1-1 call information on the | 23 |
| location and the telephone number from which the call is being | 24 |
| made. | 25 |
| (E) "Wireless enhanced 9-1-1" means a 9-1-1 system that, in | 26 |
| providing wireless 9-1-1, has the capabilities of phase I and, to | 27 |
| the extent available, phase II enhanced 9-1-1 services as | 28 |
| described in 47 C.F.R. 20.18 (d) to (h). | 29 |
| (F)(1) "Wireless service" means federally licensed commercial | 30 |
| mobile service as defined in 47 U.S.C. 332(d) and further defined | 31 |
| as commercial mobile radio service in 47 C.F.R. 20.3, and includes | 32 |
| service provided by any wireless, two-way communications device, | 33 |
| including a radio-telephone communications line used in cellular | 34 |
| telephone service or personal communications service, a network | 35 |
| radio access line, or any functional or competitive equivalent of | 36 |
| such a radio-telephone communications or network radio access | 37 |
| line. | 38 |
| (2) Nothing in sections 4931.40 to 4931.70 of the Revised | 39 |
| Code applies to paging or any service that cannot be used to call | 40 |
| 9-1-1. | 41 |
| (G) "Wireless service provider" means a facilities-based | 42 |
| provider of wireless service to one or more end users in this | 43 |
| state. | 44 |
| (H) "Wireless 9-1-1" means the emergency calling service | 45 |
| provided by a 9-1-1 system pursuant to a call originating in the | 46 |
| network of a wireless service provider. | 47 |
| (I) "Wireline 9-1-1" means the emergency calling service | 48 |
| provided by a 9-1-1 system pursuant to a call originating in the | 49 |
| network of a wireline service provider. | 50 |
| (J) "Wireline service provider" means a facilities-based | 51 |
| provider of wireline service to one or more end-users in this | 52 |
| state. | 53 |
| (K) "Wireline service" means basic local exchange service, as | 54 |
| defined in section 4927.01 of the Revised Code, that is | 55 |
| transmitted by means of interconnected wires or cables by a | 56 |
| wireline service provider authorized by the public utilities | 57 |
| commission. | 58 |
| (L) "Wireline telephone network" means the selective router | 59 |
| and data base processing systems, trunking and data wiring cross | 60 |
| connection points at the public safety answering point, and all | 61 |
| other voice and data components of the 9-1-1 system. | 62 |
| (M) "Subdivision" means a county, municipal corporation, | 63 |
| township, township fire district, joint fire district, township | 64 |
| police district, joint ambulance district, or joint emergency | 65 |
| medical services district that provides emergency service within | 66 |
| its territory, or that contracts with another municipal | 67 |
| corporation, township, or district or with a private entity to | 68 |
| provide such service; and a state college or university, port | 69 |
| authority, or park district of any kind that employs law | 70 |
| enforcement officers that act as the primary police force on the | 71 |
| grounds of the college or university or port authority or in the | 72 |
| parks operated by the district. | 73 |
| (N) "Emergency service" means emergency law enforcement, | 74 |
| firefighting, ambulance, rescue, and medical service. | 75 |
| (O) "Emergency service provider" means the state highway | 76 |
| patrol and an emergency service department or unit of a | 77 |
| subdivision or that provides emergency service to a subdivision | 78 |
| under contract with the subdivision. | 79 |
| (P) "Public safety answering point" means a facility to which | 80 |
| 9-1-1 system calls for a specific territory are initially routed | 81 |
| for response and where personnel respond to specific requests for | 82 |
| emergency service by directly dispatching the appropriate | 83 |
| emergency service provider, relaying a message to the appropriate | 84 |
| provider, or transferring the call to the appropriate provider. | 85 |
| (Q) "Customer premises equipment" means telecommunications | 86 |
| equipment, including telephone instruments, on the premises of a | 87 |
| public safety answering point that is used in answering and | 88 |
| responding to 9-1-1 system calls. | 89 |
| (R) "Municipal corporation in the county" includes any | 90 |
| municipal corporation that is wholly contained in the county and | 91 |
| each municipal corporation located in more than one county that | 92 |
| has a greater proportion of its territory in the county to which | 93 |
| the term refers than in any other county. | 94 |
| (S) "Board of county commissioners" includes the legislative | 95 |
| authority of a county established under Section 3 of Article X, | 96 |
| Ohio Constitution, or Chapter 302. of the Revised Code. | 97 |
| (T) "Final plan" means a final plan adopted under division | 98 |
| (B) of section 4931.44 of the Revised Code and, except as | 99 |
| otherwise expressly provided, an amended final plan adopted under | 100 |
| section 4931.45 of the Revised Code. | 101 |
| (U) "Subdivision served by a public safety answering point" | 102 |
| means a subdivision that provides emergency service for any part | 103 |
| of its territory that is located within the territory of a public | 104 |
| safety answering point whether the subdivision provides the | 105 |
| emergency service with its own employees or pursuant to a | 106 |
| contract. | 107 |
| (V) A township's population includes only population of the | 108 |
| unincorporated portion of the township. | 109 |
| (W) "Telephone company" means a company engaged in the | 110 |
| business of providing local exchange telephone service by making | 111 |
| available or furnishing access and a dial tone to persons within a | 112 |
| local calling area for use in originating and receiving voice | 113 |
| grade communications over a switched network operated by the | 114 |
| provider of the service within the area and gaining access to | 115 |
| other telecommunications services. "Telephone company" includes a | 116 |
| wireline service provider and a wireless service provider unless | 117 |
| otherwise expressly specified. For purposes of sections 4931.52 | 118 |
| and 4931.53 of the Revised Code, "telephone company" means a | 119 |
| wireline service provider. | 120 |
| (X) "Communications instrument" means any electronic machine | 121 |
| or device that is capable of transmitting data between two or more | 122 |
| persons or from one person to another person, including devices | 123 |
| transmitting voice, text, photographic, video, and telematic data. | 124 |
| (Y) "Automatic collision notification" means a type of | 125 |
| telematic data sent from a motor vehicle containing information | 126 |
| regarding an accident involving the vehicle. | 127 |
| (Z) "Telematic data" means data in a form that combines | 128 |
| telecommunications and computer technology and includes automatic | 129 |
| collision notification. | 130 |
| Sec. 4931.55. Each subdivision operating a public safety | 131 |
| answering point, in consultation with the Ohio 9-1-1 coordinator, | 132 |
| the Ohio 9-1-1 council, the wireless 9-1-1 advisory board, and the | 133 |
| public utilities commission, shall update and improve its customer | 134 |
| premises equipment to do all of the following: | 135 |
| (A) Receive data from every type of communications | 136 |
| instrument; | 137 |
| (B) Determine the physical location of a person placing a | 138 |
| call to the 9-1-1 system using a wireline service, a wireless | 139 |
| service, voice over internet protocol technology, or any other | 140 |
| major emerging telephone technology in common use and, based on | 141 |
| the caller's physical location, automatically transfer or route | 142 |
| the call to the appropriate emergency service provider; | 143 |
| (C) Increase access to the 9-1-1 system for the hearing | 144 |
| impaired; | 145 |
| (D) Send alerts to portable communications instruments | 146 |
| approaching the physical locations of emergencies notifying their | 147 |
| users of such emergencies. | 148 |
| Section 2. That existing section 4931.40 of the Revised Code | 149 |
| is hereby repealed. | 150 |