SB0658ham002 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. Elizabeth Hernandez

Filed: 10/28/2021

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 658

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 658 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The Emergency Telephone System Act is amended by changing Section 3 as follows:

(50 ILCS 750/3) (from Ch. 134, par. 33)

(Section scheduled to be repealed on December 31, 2023)

Sec. 3. (a) By July 1, 2017, every local public agency shall be within the jurisdiction of a 9-1-1 system.

(b) Within 18 months of the awarding of a contract to a vendor certified under Section 13-900 of the Public Utilities Act to provide Next Generation 9-1-1 service, every 9-1-1 system in Illinois, except in a municipality with a population over 500,000, shall provide Next Generation 9-1-1 service. A municipality with a population over 500,000 shall provide Next Generation 9-1-1 service by December 31, 2023.

Notwithstanding any provision of the Illinois Municipal Code, a private sector company providing emergency services to a municipality in a county with a population of at least 3,000,000 people must give written notice to the municipality it has a contract with or for which it currently provides emergency services not less than 12 months prior to termination of services. If an emergency services contract is terminated, the company terminating the emergency services contract may not increase the fees of any remaining contract by more than 3% of the fees from the previous year. Any private sector company that (i) terminates or (ii) has terminated an emergency services contract within 12 months of the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly or thereafter, prior to the natural expiration of the contract term, and subsequently seeks an increase in the annual contract value of more than 10%, shall be required to participate in mandatory arbitration and present its just cause for the requested increase. The arbitrator shall determine whether the request of the private sector company providing emergency services is based in good faith, and if not, whether a penalty should be imposed, up to and including, barring the private sector company providing emergency services from contracting with any units of local government or entities that receive funding under this Act for emergency services for a term determined by the arbitrator. As used in this Section, "emergency services" includes, but is not limited to, dispatch, 9-1-1, paramedic, or ambulance services.

(c) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit or discourage in any way the formation of multijurisdictional or regional systems, and any system established pursuant to this Act may include the territory of more than one public agency or may include a segment of the territory of a public agency.

(Source: P.A. 101-639, eff. 6-12-20; 102-9, eff. 6-3-21.)

Section 10. The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act is amended by adding Section 3.260 as follows:

(210 ILCS 50/3.260 new)

Sec. 3.260. Contracts with municipalities. Notwithstanding any provision of the Illinois Municipal Code, a private sector company providing emergency services to a municipality in a county with a population of at least 3,000,000 people must give written notice to the municipality it has a contract with or for which it currently provides emergency services not less than 12 months prior to termination of services. If an emergency services contract is terminated, the company terminating the emergency services contract may not increase the fees of any remaining contract by more than 3% of the fees from the previous year. Any private sector company that (i) terminates or (ii) has terminated an emergency services contract within 12 months of the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly or thereafter, prior to the natural expiration of the contract term, and subsequently seeks an increase in the annual contract value of more than 10%, shall be required to participate in mandatory arbitration and present its just cause for the requested increase. The arbitrator shall determine whether the request of the private sector company providing emergency services is based in good faith, and if not, whether a penalty should be imposed, up to and including, barring the private sector company providing emergency services from contracting with any units of local government or entities that receive funding under this Act for emergency services for a term determined by the arbitrator. As used in this Section, "emergency services" includes, but is not limited to, dispatch, 9-1-1, paramedic, or ambulance services.

As used in this Section, "emergency services" includes, but is not limited to, dispatch, 9-1-1, paramedic, or ambulance services.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.".