An Act To Transfer the Responsibilities of the Department of Public Safety, Maine Communications System Policy Board to the Bureau of Consolidated Emergency Communications
Maine Legislature, Session 126, LD 0372
Committee: Energy, Utilities and Technology
Sponsors: YOUNGBLOOD, KESCHL
Amends: 5 MRSA §12004-I, 25 MRSA §1531, 25 MRSA §1532, 25 MRSA §1533, 25 MRSA §1535

Legislative Document 
No. 372 
S.P. 152 
In Senate, February 12, 2013 
An Act To Transfer the Responsibilities of the Department of Public 
Safety, Maine Communications System Policy Board to the Bureau 
of Consolidated Emergency Communications 
Submitted by the Department of Public Safety pursuant to Joint Rule 204. 
Reference to the Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology suggested and ordered 
printed. 
DAREK M. GRANT 
Secretary of the Senate 
Presented by Senator YOUNGBLOOD of Penobscot. 
Cosponsored by Representative KESCHL of Belgrade. 
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repealed. 
Sec. 2.  25 MRSA §1531, as amended by PL 2009, c. 617, §§1 to 4, is repealed. 
Sec. 3.  25 MRSA §1532, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 678, §2, is repealed.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 board bureau, 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 board 
bureau all information the board bureau determines necessary in order to establish the 
fees. 
1.  Fees.  The board bureau 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 board bureau 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 board bureau 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.