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                                     LRB093 07334 MKM 14952 a

 1                    AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1098

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend Senate Bill 1098  on  page  1,
 3    line  5, by replacing "Sections 10 and 17" with "Sections 10,
 4    17, and 35"; and

 5    on page 2,  immediately  below  line  21,  by  inserting  the
 6    following:
 7        "Sufficient  positive  balance"  means  a  dollar  amount
 8    greater  than  or equal to the monthly wireless 911 surcharge
 9    amount."; and

10    on page 4, by replacing lines 4 and 5 with the following:
11    "address, or the location associated with the  MTN  for  each
12    active  prepaid  wireless  telephone  that  has  a sufficient
13    positive balance as of the last day of each  month,  if  that
14    information is available. No wireless carrier"; and

15    on  page  5,  immediately  below  line  6,  by  inserting the
16    following:

17        "(50 ILCS 751/35)
18        (Section scheduled to be repealed on April 1, 2005)
19        Sec.   35.  Wireless    Carrier    Reimbursement    Fund;
20    reimbursement.    To  recover costs from the Wireless Carrier
21    Reimbursement Fund, the wireless carrier shall  submit  sworn
 
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 1    invoices  to  the  Department of Central Management Services.
 2    In no event may any invoice for payment be approved  for  (i)
 3    costs   that   are   not   related  to  compliance  with  the
 4    requirements  established  by  the  wireless  enhanced  9-1-1
 5    mandates of the Federal Communications Commission, (ii) costs
 6    with respect to any wireless enhanced 9-1-1 service  that  is
 7    not  operable at the time the invoice is  submitted, or (iii)
 8    costs  of any wireless carrier exceeding 125% of the wireless
 9    emergency services charges remitted to the  Wireless  Carrier
10    Reimbursement  Fund  by  the  wireless  carrier under Section
11    17(b)unless the wireless carrier received prior approval  for
12    the  expenditures  from  the Department of Central Management
13    Services.
14        If in any month the total amount of invoices submitted to
15    the Department of Central Management  Services  and  approved
16    for  payment  exceeds  the  amount  available in the Wireless
17    Carrier  Reimbursement  Fund,  wireless  carriers  that  have
18    invoices approved for payment shall receive a pro-rata  share
19    of the amount available in the Wireless Carrier Reimbursement
20    Fund  based on the relative amount of their approved invoices
21    available that month, and the balance of the  payments  shall
22    be  carried  into  the  following  months,  and shall include
23    appropriate interest at the statutory rate, until all of  the
24    approved payments are made.
25        A  wireless  carrier  may  not  receive  payment from the
26    Wireless  Carrier  Reimbursement  Fund  for  its   costs   of
27    providing  wireless enhanced 9-1-1 services in an area when a
28    unit of local government or emergency telephone system  board
29    provides  wireless  9-1-1  services  in  that  area  and  was
30    imposing and collecting a wireless carrier surcharge prior to
31    July 1, 1998.
32        The  Department  of  Central  Management  Services  shall
33    maintain  detailed  records of all receipts and disbursements
34    and shall provide an annual accounting of  all  receipts  and
 
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 1    disbursements to the Auditor General.
 2        The Department of Central Management Services shall adopt
 3    rules to govern the reimbursement process.
 4    (Source: P.A. 91-660, eff. 12-22-99.)".