§ 28-30a — Enhanced 9-1-1 Telecommunications Fund.

(a) There is established a fund to be known as the “Enhanced 9-1-1 Telecommunications Fund”. The fund shall contain any moneys required by law to be deposited in the fund, including, but not limited to, any federal funds collected pursuant to subsection (d) of section 28-24, fees assessed against subscribers of local telephone service and subscribers of commercial mobile radio services pursuant to section 16-256g and prepaid wireless E 9-1-1 fees collected pursuant to section 28-30e. The Enhanced 9-1-1 Telecommunications Fund shall be held separate and apart from all other moneys, funds and accounts. Interest derived from the investment of the fund shall be credited to the assets of the fund. Any balance remaining in the fund at the end of any fiscal year shall be carried forward in the fund for the fiscal year next succeeding. (b) The State Treasurer, in consultation with the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, shall invest the moneys deposited in the Enhanced 9-1-1 Telecommunications Fund in the Short-Term Investment Fund authorized under section 3-27a or investments in which the Treasurer may invest assets of the trust funds which are listed in section 3-13c . (c) The resources of the Enhanced 9-1-1 Telecommunications Fund shall be used solely to fund the expenses, as determined by the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection in accordance with subsection (c) of section 28-24 , associated with the enhanced emergency 9-1-1 program. Any surplus shall be carried forward to successive fiscal years and used for the sole purpose of administering the enhanced emergency 9-1-1 program.

Legislative History

(P.A. 89-259, S. 2, 5; P.A. 96-150, S. 2, 5; P.A. 11-51, S. 134; P.A. 12-153, S. 6; P.A. 13-32, S. 1.) History: P.A. 96-150 changed “Public Safety Telecommunicator Training Fund” to “Enhanced 9-1-1 Telecommunications Fund” and specified use of fund, effective May 31, 1996; pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Commissioner of Emergency Management and Homeland Security” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection” in Subsec. (c), effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 12-153 amended Subsec. (a) by adding provision re revenues from prepaid wireless E 9-1-1 fee, effective January 1, 2013; P.A. 13-32 amended Subsec. (a) to replace “revenues from the prepaid wireless E 9-1-1 fee imposed pursuant to section 28-30e” with “prepaid wireless E 9-1-1 fees collected pursuant to section 28-30e” and make technical changes, effective July 1, 2013.