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An Act To Transfer the Responsibilities of the Department of Public Safety, Maine Communications System Policy Board to the Bureau of Consolidated Emergency Communications
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 5 MRSA §12004-I, sub-§74-D, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 678, §1, is repealed.
Sec. 2. 25 MRSA §1531, as amended by PL 2009, c. 617, §§1 to 4, is repealed.
Sec. 3. 25 MRSA §1532, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 678, §2, is repealed.
Sec. 4. 25 MRSA §1533, sub-§2, as enacted by PL 2009, c. 317, Pt. C, §1, is amended to read:
 
2. Director; duties.   The Commissioner of Public Safety shall hire a Director of the Bureau of Consolidated Emergency Communications, referred to in this chapter as "the director." The director shall establish and carry out policies and procedures established by the board. The director shall administer the bureau to safeguard the public safety by the provision of 24-hour per day E-9-1-1 call-taking and dispatching services to first responders.
Sec. 5. 25 MRSA §1535, as amended PL 2011, c. 505, §2, is further amended to read:
§ 1535.Fees for public safety answering point services and dispatch services
The boardbureau, in accordance with this section, shall establish the fees that must be paid by political subdivisions for public safety answering point services and dispatch services provided by the department to those political subdivisions, including services provided pursuant to section 2923-A. All political subdivisions that are to be provided public safety answering point services and dispatch services shall provide to the boardbureau all information the boardbureau determines necessary in order to establish the fees.
 
1. Fees.   The boardbureau shall seek to establish fees under this section that are based on the incremental costs of providing public safety answering point services and dispatch services to political subdivisions.
 
2. Base funding level.   In order to determine incremental costs under subsection 1, the boardbureau shall first establish a base funding level, consistent with the department's legislatively approved budget for public safety answering point services and dispatch services, required to provide public safety answering point services and dispatch services to State Government entities. The base funding level must be based on services provided by the department prior to the provision of emergency dispatch and E-9-1-1 call-taking services to municipal and county governments as a result of actions taken by the bureau under section 1533. The base funding level must be excluded by the boardbureau from its determination of incremental costs under subsection 1.
 
3. Consideration of population.   If a fee established under this section for a political subdivision is based in whole or in part on population, the population of the political subdivision may not include persons held at a correctional facility, as defined in Title 34-A, section 1001, subsection 6, within the political subdivision.
Sec. 6. Maine Revised Statutes headnote amended; revision clause. In the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 25, chapter 192-B, in the chapter headnote, the words "maine communications system policy board" are amended to read "bureau of consolidated emergency communications" and the Revisor of Statutes shall implement this revision when updating, publishing or republishing the statutes.
 
SUMMARY
This bill transfers the powers and duties of the Department of Public Safety, Maine Communications System Policy Board to the Bureau of Consolidated Emergency Communications within that department.