Subject: [NEXTEL-1] AN ACT CONCERNING EXPENDITURE OF PUBLIC MONEYS FOR PUBLIC SAFETY RADIO COMMUNICATIONS.

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Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 06:35:10 -0400

State Of Connecticut General Assembly
Committee Bill No. 6294
January Session, 2003

LCO No. 3854
Referred to Committee on Public Safety
Introduced by:
(PS)
AN ACT CONCERNING EXPENDITURE OF PUBLIC MONEYS FOR PUBLIC SAFETY RADIO COMMUNICATIONS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2003) (a) As used in this section:
(1)	"Communications equipment or service" means any physical devices for use in tactical public safety dispatch radio, including equipment, software, hardware or services which facilitate the sending, transmission, carriage or use of any radiotelephone or mobile radio or other wireless communication, including, but not limited to, fixed and mobile wireless transceiver devices, switches, routers, trunking devices, relay devices, transmission devices, transmission receiving devices, antennas, base stations, administrative consoles, cross connect devices, multiplexing devices, coders and decoders;
(2)	"Public funds" means any moneys collected or received by, or in the custody of, any person and belonging to, or held in trust for, the state or a municipality;
(3)	"Public safety application" means any application, function or use relating to protecting, maintaining or advancing the safety of the public, including, but not limited to, the use of voice or data communications to assist homeland security, policing and law enforcement, border patrol and protection, civil emergency and preparedness, fire safety, control and fire suppression, medical response and emergency medical response, highway and other public transportation operation, maintenance, repair and assistance;
(4)	"System" means the communications network or system upon or through which radio or wireless based communications are facilitated, in whole or in part, from one point of origination to any other one or more final or intermediate points of delivery or reception, including, but not limited to, router, switching and trunking elements, call or channel validation and authorization elements, network signaling and control elements and protocols, and interconnection and relay elements; and
(5)	"Interconnection" means any reasonable and nondiscriminatory system of mutual connection and interoperability between communications systems which complies with the technical specifications of the interconnection which are published and available at no cost to the equipment user, licensee or owner or any other party.

(b) No public funds shall be expended by any state or municipal agency for any radio communications equipment or service for any public safety application unless such equipment or service can, at no additional cost, interconnect to existing communications systems operated by any federal, state or municipal agency.
(c) No public funds shall be expended, either directly or indirectly, by any federal, state or municipal entity, agency or political subdivision for any radio communications equipment or service for use in any public safety applications, unless the communications system upon or within which such equipment or service operates, at the time of such equipment installation and first use, allows for interconnection into another public safety radio system that desires to interconnect thereto.
(d) Without limiting the provisions of subsections (a) and (b) of this section, interconnection and interoperability shall be deemed to permit any third party equipment or third party communications system, through application programming interface specifications, protocol specifications and hardware and system design specifications, to:

(1) Send and receive voice and data content from the system in its native transmission format or protocol without the aid of a proprietary equipment or signal interpreter, coder or decoder device or other end device, at and within such points of the system irrespective of the physical point or method of interface, to the extent technically feasible;
(2) Send and receive network, routing, trunking and switching control and signaling control data, inputs and outputs in its native format or protocol, and to execute, process and transmit network control and signaling functions and to do so at and within such points of the system irrespective of the physical point or method of interface, to the extent technically feasible;
(3) Access, physically and electronically, and interface with any element of the system at such points that are technically capable of being interfaced, or substitute, replace, supplement or enhance any element of the system, or part thereof, with an element or part thereof made or supplied by any third party that complies with the specifications without invalidating any guarantees or warrantees relating to the system other then the part or element so replaced or modified.

This act shall take effect as follows:
Section 1
October 1, 2003

Statement of Purpose:
To provide that any public safety radio communications systems that are funded by public moneys and are to be used in a public safety application are open access systems.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]
Co-Sponsors:
REP. DARGAN, 115th Dist.

H. B. 6294

http://www.cga.state.ct.us/2003/tob/h/2003HB-06294-R01-HB.htm

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