BILL NUMBER: SB 1597	CHAPTERED  07/12/06

	CHAPTER  73
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JULY 12, 2006
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  JULY 12, 2006
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  JUNE 26, 2006
	PASSED THE SENATE  MAY 11, 2006

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Denham

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2006

   An act to add Section 41136.1 to the Revenue and Taxation Code,
relating to taxation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1597, Denham  Taxation: Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge
Act.
   The Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act requires any person
supplying intrastate telephone communication services, as specified,
in the state to collect a surcharge imposed on amounts paid by every
person in the state for intrastate telephone communication service.
It requires the Department of General Services to annually determine
a surcharge rate that it estimates will produce sufficient revenue to
fund the current fiscal year's costs, but prohibits the surcharge
rate in any year to be greater than 3/4 of 1% nor less than 1/2 of
1%. It establishes the State Emergency Telephone Number Account into
which the payments made pursuant to the act are deposited. It
requires, upon appropriation, funds in the account to pay, among
other things, bills submitted to the department by service providers
or communications equipment companies for the installation of, and
ongoing expenses for, specified communication services.
   This bill would provide that, for each fiscal year, the department
will hold in trust money in the State Emergency Telephone Number
Account, not appropriated for an authorized purpose, for future
appropriation for upcoming, planned "911" emergency number system
projects that have been approved by the department, even if the
projects have not yet commenced.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 41136.1 is added to the Revenue and Taxation
Code, to read:
   41136.1.  For each fiscal year, moneys in the State Emergency
Telephone Number Account not appropriated for a purpose specified in
Section 41136 shall be held in trust for future appropriation for
upcoming, planned "911" emergency telephone number projects that have
been approved by the Department of General Services, even if the
projects have not yet commenced.