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ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Fifty-Fourth Legislature, Second Regular Session
appropriations; DPS: school safety program.
Purpose
Appropriates $1,500,000 from the state General Fund (GF) in FY 2021 and $3,000,000 from the state GF in FY 2022 and FY 2023 to the Arizona School Safety Fund (Fund). Appropriates $3,000,000 from the Fund in FY 2021, 2022 and 2023 to the Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS) to establish a School Safety Program (Program).
Background
The Public Safety Interoperability Fund (the Fund) is administered by DPS and is subject to legislative appropriation. Monies in the Fund must be used for interoperable communication systems (A.R.S. § 41-1733). Currently, the Fund contains a $1,500,000 balance from a deposit made in FY 2020 (JLBC baseline).
The Joint Ad Hoc Committee on Statewide Emergency Communications met, on January 23, 2020, and adopted recommendations to establish a Public Safety Communications Advisory Commission (PSCC) to review, or require the Director of DPS to review, new technologies relating to the expansion of statewide emergency communications regarding school safety and report findings to DPS by December 1, 2020. DPS is prohibited from acting on any request for proposal or solicitation pursuant to an existing statewide contract for goods and services before hearing a report from the PSCC. DPS or the PSCC may not expend more than $10,000,000 to expand the entire interoperability system.
S.B. appropriates $1,500,000 from the state GF in FY 2021 and $3,000,000 from the state GF in FY 2022 and 2023.
Provisions
1. Renames the Public Safety Interoperability Fund as the Fund.
2. Requires Fund monies to be used solely for Programs, rather than interoperability communications systems.
3. Appropriates the following amounts from the state GF to the Fund:
a) $1,500,000 in FY 2021;
b) $3,000,000 in FY 2022; and
c) $3,000,000 in FY 2023.
4. Appropriates $3,000,000 from the Fund in FY 2021, 2022 and 2023 to DPS for the Program.
5. Requires DPS to establish the Program which must:
a) enable the statewide deployment of a secure, multimedia data communications system to a user base consisting of public safety agencies and public and private schools instructing students in any combination of kindergarten programs and grades 1 through 12;
b) provide a communications solution environment that allows for:
i. identifying system users' identity, location and operational status during an incident;
ii. secure text messaging and file sharing to all users involved in an incident;
iii. secure sharing of collaborative maps, building floor plans and images between schools and public safety agencies;
iv. integrating manually activated panic alarm systems that, when activated, establish direct collaboration between schools and public agencies schools; and
v. using multiple forms of real-time communications and information collaboration, including voice and full-motion video sharing, during an incident.
c) be capable of being deployed to end users on existing communications assets owned by participating entities;
d) allow each participating entity to maintain discretionary real-time control of all communications assets own or operated by the entity;
e) encrypt all media communications; and
f) ensure student and staff privacy.
6. Exempts the appropriations in FY 2021, 2022 and 2023 from lapsing.
7. Becomes effective on the general effective date.
Prepared by Senate Research
February 14, 2020
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