Assembly Bill A608

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to direct dialing to public service answering points

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-A608 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S932
Current Committee:
Senate Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Add §717-a, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A7294, S3988
2019-2020: A458, S4756

2017-A608 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that public buildings with multi-line telephone systems configure their system hardware in order to allow any call placed to 911, to be directly connected to a public service answering point.

2017-A608 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    608
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 9, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. PAULIN, ARROYO, COOK, GOTTFRIED, GALEF, STECK --
   Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CROUCH, HIKIND, HOOPER, MAGEE, SIMON --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in  relation  to  direct  dialing  to
   public service answering points

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section  717-a
 to read as follows:
   §  717-A.  DIRECT  DIALING TO PUBLIC SERVICE ANSWERING POINTS. 1.  FOR
 PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "PUBLIC  BUILDING"  SHALL  MEAN  ANY  BUILDING
 BELONGING  TO  THE  STATE, COUNTY, TOWN, VILLAGE, SCHOOL DISTRICT OR ANY
 OTHER POLITICAL OR CIVIL SUBDIVISION OF STATE OR LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
   2. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "MULTI-LINE TELEPHONE  SYSTEM"  SHALL
 MEAN  ANY  SYSTEM  COMPRISED  OF  COMMON  CONTROL UNITS, TELEPHONE SETS,
 CONTROL HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE, AND ADJUNCT SYSTEMS WHICH  ENABLES  USERS
 TO MAKE AND RECEIVE TELEPHONE CALLS USING SHARED RESOURCES SUCH AS TELE-
 PHONE  NETWORK TRUNKS OR DATA LINK BANDWIDTH. THIS TERM INCLUDES, BUT IS
 NOT LIMITED TO, NETWORK-BASED AND PREMISES-BASED SYSTEMS SUCH AS CENTREX
 SERVICE, PREMISES-BASED, HOSTED AND CLOUD-BASED VOIP, AS  WELL  AS  PBX,
 HYBRID AND KEY TELEPHONE SYSTEMS, AS CLASSIFIED BY THE FCC UNDER PART 68
 OF ITS RULES.
   3. ALL PUBLIC BUILDINGS WHICH OPERATE ON A MULTI-LINE TELEPHONE SYSTEM
 IN  THIS STATE MUST CONFIGURE THEIR MULTI-LINE TELEPHONE SYSTEM HARDWARE
 TO ALLOW ANY CALL TO 911 ON THE SYSTEM TO BE  DIRECTLY  CONNECTED  TO  A
 PUBLIC SERVICE ANSWERING POINT.
   4.  THE  REQUIREMENTS  OF  SUBDIVISION THREE OF THIS SECTION SHALL NOT
 APPLY TO ANY PUBLIC BUILDING OPERATING ON A MULTI-LINE TELEPHONE  SYSTEM
 THAT  WOULD  BE  REQUIRED  TO  UPGRADE  THE  HARDWARE OF THEIR TELEPHONE
 NETWORK TO MEET SAID REQUIREMENT. HOWEVER, EVERY TELEPHONE IN ANY EXEMPT
 PUBLIC BUILDING OPERATING ON A MULTI-LINE TELEPHONE SYSTEM  SHALL  PLACE
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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