Bill Text: CA AB2675 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 2675 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act: access line information.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-12 - Referred to Com. on C. & C. [AB2675 Detail]

Download: California-2019-AB2675-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2675

Introduced by Assembly Member Quirk

February 20, 2020

An act to add Section 41030.5 to the Revenue and Taxation Code, relating to emergency telephone services.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2675, as introduced, Quirk. Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act: access line information.

The Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act imposes, on and after January 1, 2020, a surcharge on each access line for each month or part thereof for which a service user subscribes with a service supplier, at an amount no greater than $0.80, based on the Office of Emergency Services’ estimate of the number of access lines to which the surcharge will be applied per month for a calendar year period, that it estimates, pursuant to a specified formula, will produce sufficient revenue to fund the current fiscal year’s 911 costs. That act also imposes, on and after January 1, 2020, a surcharge of equal amount for each retail transaction in this state on the purchase of prepaid mobile telephony services. Existing law requires service suppliers to report the total number of access lines to the Office of Emergency Services, on or before August 1, for the previous period of January 1 to December 31, inclusive, for purposes of the surcharge.

This bill would allow public disclosure of access line information provided by service suppliers to the Office of Emergency Services only if the information is aggregated such that no service supplier-specific information is disclosed or to the extent that the Federal Communications Commission or Public Utilities Commission lawfully disclose the same information to members of the public.

Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.

This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 41030.5 is added to the Revenue and Taxation Code, to read:

41030.5.

Access line information provided by service suppliers to the Office of Emergency Services as required by Section 41030 shall be subject to public disclosure only if the information is aggregated such that no service supplier-specific information is disclosed or to the extent that the Federal Communications Commission or Public Utilities Commission lawfully disclose the same information to members of the public.

SEC. 2.

The Legislature finds and declares that Section 1 of this act, which adds Section 41030.5 to the Revenue and Taxation Code, imposes a limitation on the public’s right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies within the meaning of Section 3 of Article I of the California Constitution. Pursuant to that constitutional provision, the Legislature makes the following findings to demonstrate the interest protected by this limitation and the need for protecting that interest:

This act balances the need for a government agency to obtain propriety business information with calculating an accurate fee to support the deployment of California’s Next Generation 911 system.