Nelson, Klobuchar File NG 911 Act to Encourage Deployments
Senate Commerce Committee ranking member Bill Nelson, D-Fla., and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., filed their Next Generation 9-1-1 Act (S-2061) Thursday. The bill, first floated in late February (see 1702280062), aims to accelerate deployment of such systems by expanding the…
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existing 911 grant program and the 911 Implementation Coordination Office (ICO) guidance to federal, state and local entities on deploying the new systems. The bill would make it the sense of Congress that the nation should complete the transition to NG-911 "as soon as practicable" but "not later than 10 years" after enactment. The legislation would direct ICO to issue a request for information on possible changes to federal law to encourage next-gen deployments and to recommend changes to state and local laws to encourage them. Possible changes to federal law could include requiring a “national public safety answering points certification or credentialing process” related to NG-911, the legislation said. S-2061 would create the Advisory Board for NG-911 Interoperability within ICO to review the existing definition of the services. “Upgrading the nation’s 9-1-1 system is literally a life and death matter that must become more of a national priority,” Nelson said: “In this digital world, Americans must have more than one way to access" 911.