Florida Senate - 2018                                    SB 1026
       
       
        
       By Senator Book
       
       
       
       
       
       32-01474-18                                           20181026__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to text-to-911 service; amending s.
    3         365.172, F.S.; requiring counties to develop a plan
    4         for implementing a text-to-911 system and have a
    5         system to receive E911 text messages by a specified
    6         date; providing an effective date.
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    8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   10         Section 1. Subsection (15) of section 365.172, Florida
   11  Statutes, is renumbered as subsection (16), and a new subsection
   12  (15) is added to that section, to read:
   13         365.172 Emergency communications number “E911.”—
   14         (15) TEXT-TO-911 SERVICE.—Each county shall develop a
   15  countywide implementation plan for text-to-911 services and have
   16  in place a system to receive E911 text messages from providers
   17  by January 1, 2021.
   18         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2018.