An Act to revise provisions regarding the 911 emergency surcharge.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota:

Section 1. That § 34-45-4 be AMENDED:

34-45-4. A monthly uniform 911 emergency surcharge of one dollar and twenty-five cents shall be two dollars one dollar and fifty cents must be assessed per service user line. The proceeds of the 911 emergency surcharge shall must be used to pay for allowable nonrecurring and recurring costs of the 911 system. No 911 emergency surcharge may be imposed upon more than one hundred service user lines or equivalent service, per customer account billed, per month. In the case of multi-station network systems, the service user lines shall be are equal to the number of calls that can simultaneously be made from the system to the public switched telephone network. No prepaid wireless telecommunications service is subject to the 911 emergency surcharge imposed under this section.

Section 2. That a NEW SECTION be added to chapter 34-45:

Each governing body of a public safety answering point shall submit an annual report to the Department of Public Safety and the Government Operations and Audit Committee by March thirty-first of each year. The report must be available for public inspection. The annual report for each answering point must include the following:

(1) Number of unique service calls made for ambulance, fire, and law enforcement;

(2) Average response time for emergency services;

(3) Total number of employees;

(4) Operational budget;

(5) Total amount of dollars received by the 911 emergency surcharge pursuant to § 34-45-4 from each jurisdiction in the system;

(6) Description of the geographic territory of the public safety answering point; and

(7) Hours of operation for the public safety answering point.

The Department of Public Safety may promulgate rules, pursuant to chapter 1-26, to require additional information from a public safety answering point for the purposes of the annual report.

Section 3. Section 1 of this Act expires on June 30, 2025.