9-1-1 Emergency Service Protection Act

Bill: 115-hr-6155
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Torres, Norma J. [D-CA-35]
Introduced: 2018-06-19
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Emergency medical services and trauma care

Financial services and investments

First responders and emergency personnel

Performance measurement

Securities
Latest action: action_date: 2018-06-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-06-19
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>9-1-1 Emergency Service Protection Act</strong></p> <p>This bill amends the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to require a registered&nbsp;investment adviser who advises a private fund that owns a controlling interest in an emergency services company to disclose to the Securities and Exchange Commission, at least annually:</p> <ul> <li>the change in the average response time of emergency vehicles since the private fund acquired a controlling interest in the company, </li> <li>the percentage of response times that failed to&nbsp;meet a response time&nbsp;required by contract or local ordinance, and </li> <li>a description of the impact of any such failure on the value of the company to the private fund. </li></ul> <ul> <ul> <ul></ul></ul></ul>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 6155 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 19, 2018 Mrs. Torres introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services A BILL To amend the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to require investment advisers who advise a private fund that owns an emergency services company to disclose to the Securities and Exchange Commission the average response times of emergency vehicles deployed by such company in response to 9–1–1 calls, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the 9–1–1 Emergency Service Protection Act . 2. Report on emergency vehicle response times of companies owned by private funds (a) In general Section 204(b) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 ( 15 U.S.C. 80b–4(b) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (12) Report on emergency vehicle response times of companies owned by private funds (A) In general Each investment adviser required to file annual or other reports under this section and who advises a private fund that owns a controlling interest in an emergency services company shall, not less often than annually, disclose to the Commission— (i) the change in the average response time of emergency vehicles since the private fund acquired a controlling interest in the emergency services company, dis­ag­gre­gat­ed by the response times of emergency vehicles deployed to— (I) rural areas; and (II) urban areas; (ii) if a required response time is established by a contract for emergency services between the emergency services company and a unit of local government or by an ordinance of a unit of local government, the percentage of response times of emergency vehicles deployed by the emergency services company to that unit of local government that do not meet such requirement; and (iii) if the response times failed to meet the required response time described under clause (ii), a description of the impact of such failure on the value of the emergency services company to the private fund. (B) Definitions For purposes of this paragraph: (i) Emergency services company The term emergency services company means a company that provides ambulance, firefighter, or other emergency services in response to 9–1–1 calls. (ii) Emergency vehicle The term emergency vehicle means an ambulance, fire engine, or other vehicle deployed in response to a 9–1–1 call. . (b) Rulemaking Not later than 270 days after the date of the enactment of this section, the Commission shall issue regulations to carry out paragraph (12) of section 204(b) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as added by subsection (a).