PUBLIC Law Chapter 359

	1-B. Statewide E-9-1-1 surcharge. The activities authorized
under this chapter are funded through a special statewide E-9-1-1
surcharge levied on each residential and business telephone
exchange line, including private branch exchange lines and
Centrex lines, cellular or wireless telecommunications service
subscribers and semipublic coin and public access lines. The
statewide E-9-1-1 surcharge may not be imposed on more than 25
lines or numbers per customer billing account. In the case of
cellular or wireless telecommunications service subscribers, the
place of residence of those subscribers must be determined
according to the sourcing rules for mobile telecommunications
services set forth in Title 36, section 1816. The statewide E-9-
1-1 surcharge is 50¢ per month per line or number ~~until 90 days~~
~~after adjournment of the First Regular Session of the 121st~~
~~Legislature, after which time the statewide E-9-1-1 surcharge is~~
~~32¢ per month per line or number~~. The statewide E-9-1-1
surcharge must be billed on a monthly basis by each local
exchange telephone utility or cellular or wireless
telecommunications service provider and be shown separately as a
statewide E-9-1-1 surcharge on the customer's bill.

Sec. 5. 35-A MRSA §103, sub-§2, ¶D is enacted to read:

D.__The commission shall oversee and manage the Emergency
Services Communication Bureau established under Title 25,
chapter 352.

Sec. 6. Transition.

1. The provisions of this Act that move the Emergency
Services Communication Bureau from within the Department of
Public Safety to within the Public Utilities Commission are
intended to change the oversight and management of the bureau but
are not intended and may not be interpreted to affect in any
manner the purposes, powers, duties or functions or any
contracts, agreements, obligations or other legal arrangements of
the bureau, and all existing contracts, agreements, obligations
or other legal arrangements of the bureau currently in effect
continue in effect until rescinded, revised or amended.

2. All existing rules, regulations and procedures in effect,
in operation or adopted in or by the Emergency Services
Communication Bureau remain in effect until rescinded, revised or
amended.

3. All positions authorized and allocated to the Emergency
Services Communication Bureau within the Department of Public
Safety are authorized and allocated to the Emergency Services
Communication Bureau within the Public Utilities Commission.

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