Bill Text: CA AB449 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 449 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Telecommunications: mobile telephony service: emergency

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-01 - Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution. From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB449 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB449-Introduced.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 449	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Mitchell

                        FEBRUARY 15, 2011

   An act to add Section 2882 to the Public Utilities Code, relating
to telecommunications.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 449, as introduced, Mitchell. Telecommunications: mobile
telephony service: emergency contact information.
   Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory
authority over public utilities, including telephone corporations,
as defined.
   This bill would require a mobile telephony services provider, upon
activation of service, to cause an emergency contact information, as
defined, number to be programmed into the subscriber's mobile
telephone, unless the subscriber expressly declines, in writing, to
have this service performed.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 2882 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to
read:
   2882.  (a) This section may be known and cited as the Oberg/James
Wireless Communications Emergency Notification Act of 2011.
   (b) Each mobile telephony services provider, upon activation of
service, shall cause to be programmed into the subscriber's mobile
telephone an emergency contact information number, unless the
subscriber expressly declines, in writing, to have this service
performed. The emergency contact information number shall be
programmed to dial when the letters i, c, and e, representing the
first letters in the phrase "In Case of Emergency," are dialed by an
emergency responder.
   (c) For purposes of this section, "emergency contact information
number" means a telephone number that is programmed into a mobile
telephony services telephone of the first person who should be
contacted in the event the person in possession of that telephone is
involved in an accident or other emergency that prevents that person
from informing emergency responders whom they should contact in the
event of an emergency.