Amended
IN
Senate
June 02, 2020 |
Introduced by Senator Jackson |
February 18, 2020 |
This bill would require each provider of telecommunications service to (1) notify local emergency management officials about the location and status
of the provider’s critical communications infrastructure, as defined, (2) provide to the local incident command upon the declaration of an emergency or natural disaster the name and contact information for, and make available upon request, an official representative of the provider able to assist local emergency operations, (3) report to local emergency management authorities and the commission the transmission status of emergency alerts, notifications, and messages, (4) notify local and state emergency management officials in real time of impacted critical communications infrastructure within their jurisdictions that has been damaged or otherwise rendered inoperable, and, (5) upon the conclusion of an emergency or natural disaster, timely report to the commission on the impacts to the provider’s network during the emergency or natural disaster, as specified.
(A)The physical assets and equipment necessary to provide communications service to customers.
(B)The physical assets and equipment necessary to provide backhaul services to the communications network.
(C)Sources of electricity, including backup storage and generation, necessary for the functioning of the infrastructure described in subparagraphs (A) and (B).
(b)Each provider of telecommunications service shall do all of the following:
(1)Notify each local emergency management official about the location and status of the provider’s critical
communications infrastructure within the official’s jurisdiction. The notice shall include all of the following:
(A)An inventory of the location and type of critical communications infrastructure. The provider shall update the inventory annually.
(B)A real-time inventory of critical communications infrastructure that is, or may be, affected by an ongoing natural disaster or emergency declared by the local emergency management authority, or a deenergization event implemented by an electrical corporation or local publicly owned electric utility.
(C)The geographic boundaries of the provider’s service territory reliant on the critical communications infrastructure that is, or may be, affected by an ongoing natural disaster or emergency declared by the local emergency management authority, or a deenergization event
implemented by an electrical corporation or local publicly owned electric utility, including the subregional distribution of communications from major cell towers.
(2)Immediately upon the declaration of an emergency or natural disaster, provide to the local incident command the name and contact information for, and make available upon request, an official representative of the provider, who shall have the credentials and training necessary to participate at a local emergency operations center.
(3)Immediately following the transmission of an emergency alert, notification, or other message sent from the local emergency management authority relevant to an ongoing incident, the telecommunications provider shall report to the local emergency management authority the transmission status of the emergency alert, notification, or message, including all of the following:
(A)The number of individuals who were sent the emergency alert, notification, or message.
(B)The number of individuals who received the emergency alert, notification, or message.
(C)The regional distribution of the emergency alert, notification, or message, including geographic information about the regions where the emergency alert, notification, or message was not received due to communications network failure.
(D)The number of emergency alerts, messages, and notifications per minute that were sent, and the number of emergency alerts, messages, and notifications per minute that were delivered, as a result of the local emergency management authority’s transmission of the emergency alert, notification, or other message.
(4)Report to the commission on the efficacy of the Wireless Emergency Alert System, and local emergency alert system, and the alerts, messages, and notifications sent from, and received by, the provider’s users using its network during an emergency or natural disaster. The report shall include comprehensive reporting on alert, messaging, and notification performance, including throughput and error rates, and the impact on alert, messaging, and notification performance resulting from damage to critical communications infrastructure caused by an emergency or natural disaster or a deenergization event.
(5)Notify a local or state emergency management official in real time of impacted critical communications infrastructure within the official’s jurisdictions that has been damaged or otherwise rendered inoperable. The notification shall, to the extent possible, provide actionable
information on how the official can facilitate the restoration of service.
(6)(A)Upon the conclusion of an emergency or natural disaster, timely report to the commission on the impacts to its network during the emergency or natural disaster.
(B)The report shall include all of the following:
(i)A description of the infrastructure that was damaged or otherwise impacted by the emergency or natural disaster.
(ii)The number of the provider’s users whose service was affected or lost during the emergency or natural disaster.
(iii)An estimate of the reduction to the provider’s network traffic during the emergency or natural
disaster.