The California 9-1-1 Policy and Practices Work Group has been tasked with assessing the State of California’s (State) current 9-1-1 Phone System funding policy methodology and equipment replacement cycle. The assessment will have a direct impact to the funding distributed by the State to PSAPs for their 9-1-1 Phone System […]
Governor Brown on Thursday vetoed Assembly Bill 300, a bill that would have added a 9-1-1 surcharge at the point of sale of pre-paid cell phones. Governor Brown stated that the “solution is… duplicative, complex and will result in significant and unnecessary costs to the state.” He did encourage Assembly-person […]
During the last week of the 2013 legislative year, the Legislature approved and sent Governor Brown over 500 measures for his consideration. Thus far, of those measures, the Governor has signed 267 and vetoed 12. With 10 days remaining until the October 13, 2013, deadline for gubernatorial action, over 200 […]
AB 300 – The bill that will impose a surcharge on pre-paid cell phones and go for funding 9-1-1 passed the State Assembly Conference Committee today. APCO and California Fire Chiefs Association held a 30 minute conference call with Jonathan Arambel, Assembly Member Perea’s staffer, on the morning of September […]
The State 9-1-1 Office held a Virtual Town Hall meeting the afternoon of 6/26/13. Download the presentation here. Here are my notes of interesting items: Language Line • The Language Line transition will be effective July 1. $0.59 per minute. • PSAPs will no longer need to cut a PO […]
In case you didn’t get the letter from the State 9-1-1 Office, there are some actions all PSAPs need to take regarding Language Interpretation Services. The current State Contract with CanTalk expires on June 30, 2013. You need to transition to the new contractor – Language Line Solutions (LLS). And […]
On June 10th the State 9-1-1 Office announced changes to two sections of the 9-1-1 Manual: Travel Reimbursements and Training Policies. In summary, the changes to the Travel Reimbursement Policy are that they will now use the State of California reimbursement rates for mileage and hotel charges. The full policy can […]
State 9-1-1 has announced that Language Line Services (LLS) will be awarded the Foreign Language Emergency Interpretation Services contract for 9-1-1 in California. The current state contract with CanTalk will expire on June 30, 2013. The new State Contract needs to be executed by the Department of General Services (DGS) before services […]