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An Act Regarding the Implementation of the Quality Assurance Program for Public Safety Answering Points
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 25 MRSA §2926, sub-§1-A, as enacted by PL 2009, c. 617, §6, is amended to read:
 
1-A. Quality assurance.   The bureau shall develop and implement a quality assurance program to audit and monitor compliance with emergency dispatching standards, practices and procedures of public safety answering points. To ensure uniformity in administration and avoid additional costs to property taxpayers, the bureau shall implement the quality assurance program through the use of one or more 3rd-party vendors using resources other than increased assessments to the municipalities subscribing to or providing the public safety answering point services.
 
SUMMARY
This bill directs the Public Utilities Commission, Emergency Services Communication Bureau to implement the public safety answering point quality assurance program established in 2010 through the use of one or more 3rd-party vendors and ensure that the financing of that program is accomplished with resources other than increased assessments to the municipalities subscribing to or providing the public safety answering point services.