Bill Text: IL SB1330 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Emergency Telephone System Act. In a provision prohibiting the installation of a connection to a telephone company's network of any automatic alarm, automatic alerting device, or mechanical dialer that causes the number 9-1-1 to be dialed in order to directly access emergency services, provides an exemption for certain devices used to enable access to the 9-1-1 system for cognitively-impaired, disabled, or special needs persons in an emergency situation reported by a caregiver after initiating a missing person's report. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [SB1330 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-SB1330-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 SB1330 Introduced 2/8/2011, by Sen. David Koehler SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
50 ILCS 750/15.2a from Ch. 134, par. 45.2a
Amends the Emergency Telephone System Act. In a provision prohibiting the installation of or connection to a telephone company's network of any automatic alarm, automatic alerting device, or mechanical dialer that causes the number 9-1-1 to be dialed in order to directly access emergency services, provides an exemption for certain devices used to enable access to the 9-1-1 system for cognitively-impaired, disabled, or special needs persons in an emergency situation reported by a caregiver after initiating a missing person's report. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Emergency Telephone System Act is amended by
changing Section 15.2a as follows:
(50 ILCS 750/15.2a) (from Ch. 134, par. 45.2a)
Sec. 15.2a. The installation of or connection to a
telephone company's network of any automatic alarm, automatic
alerting device, or mechanical dialer that causes the number
9-1-1 to be dialed in order to directly access emergency
services is prohibited in a 9-1-1 system. The prohibitions
contained in this Section shall not be applicable to devices
used to enable access to the 9-1-1 system for
cognitively-impaired, disabled, or special needs persons in an
emergency situation reported by a caregiver after initiating a
missing person's report. Any such device must have the
capability to be activated and controlled remotely by trained
personnel at a service center to prevent falsely activated or
repeated calls to the 9-1-1 system in a single incident. Any
such device must have the technical capability to generate the
provision of location information to the 9-1-1 system. Under no
circumstances shall a device be sold for use in a geographical
jurisdiction where the 9-1-1 system has not deployed wireless

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phase II location technology. The alerting device shall also
provide for either 2-way communication or send a pre-recorded
message to 9-1-1 explaining the nature of the emergency so that
9-1-1 will be able to dispatch the appropriate emergency
responder. Violation of this Section is a Class A misdemeanor.
A second or subsequent violation of this Section is a Class 4
felony.
(Source: P.A. 87-146; 88-497.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.