Public safety communication.

Existing law, the Public Safety Communication Act of 2002, provides that the Public Safety Radio Strategic Planning Committee shall have primary responsibility in state government to develop and implement a statewide integrated public safety communication system that facilitates interoperability among state public safety departments and other first response agencies and to coordinate other shared uses of the public safety spectrum. It requires the committee to make recommendations for state agency purchase of public safety radio subscriber equipment that will enable those agencies to commence conforming to industry and governmental interoperability standards. The act defines various terms for these purposes. This bill would recast various provisions of the act. The bill would revise and add to the act's definitions and rename the committee the State Emergency Communications Council. The bill would modify the responsibilities of the committee for purposes of the act and require the committee to establish guidelines for the purchase of public safety communications equipment. The bill would require the California Emergency Management Agency to submit specified updates and addenda relating to the California Statewide Communications Interoperability Plan to the Legislature and would require the office of the State Chief Information Officer to produce a Public Safety Communications Strategic Plan on or before June 1, 2010, and every 5 years thereafter, as specified.