(a) There is established a Division of State-Wide Emergency Telecommunications which shall be within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection. The Division of State-Wide Emergency Telecommunications shall be responsible for developing and maintaining a state-wide emergency service telecommunications policy. In connection with said policy, the division shall:
(1) Develop a state-wide emergency service telecommunications plan specifying emergency police, fire and medical service telecommunications systems needed to provide coordinated emergency service telecommunications to all state residents, including persons with physical disabilities and persons in need of mental health, behavioral health or substance use disorder services;
(2) (A) Develop and administer an enhanced emergency 9-1-1 program, which shall provide for: (i) The replacement of existing 9-1-1 terminal equipment for each public safety answering point; (ii) the subsidization of regional public safety emergency telecommunications centers, with enhanced subsidization (I) for municipalities with a population of forty thousand or more, and (II) pursuant to subparagraph (B) of this subdivision, for such centers serving at least one municipality with a population of one hundred thousand or more as of July 1, 2016; (iii) the establishment of incentives to encourage regionalization of public safety answering points, which incentives shall include, but not be limited to, a transition grant program; (iv) the establishment of a regional emergency telecommunications service credit in order to support regional dispatch services; and (v) the implementation of the next generation 9-1-1 telecommunication system;
(B) (i) Beginning July 1, 2019, and ending on the date a regulation described in subparagraph (B)(v) of this subdivision is posted on the eRegulations System by the Secretary of the State in accordance with section 4-172 , or on May 1, 2020, whichever is sooner, enhanced subsidization payments for any regional public safety emergency telecommunications center described in subparagraph (A)(ii)(II) of this subdivision shall be calculated in accordance with the provisions of this subparagraph, provided subsidization payments for regional public safety emergency telecommunications centers other than those described in said subparagraph shall not be decreased as a result of such calculation.
(ii) As used in this subparagraph:
(I) “Division” means the Division of State-Wide Emergency Telecommunications;
(II) “RPOP” means the aggregate population of the towns or cities served by the regional public safety emergency telecommunications center as determined by the most recent population figures from the Department of Public Health;
(III) “RPV” means the regional population value calculated by identifying the total annual subsidy paid by the division for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018, to all regional public safety emergency telecommunications centers, multiplying such total annual subsidy payment by twenty-five per cent, and dividing such product by the aggregate population of the towns or cities served by all such centers in existence on December 31, 2017, as determined by the population figures from the Department of Public Health on said date;
(IV) “RCV” means the regional call value calculated by the total annual subsidy paid by the division for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2017, to all regional public safety emergency telecommunications centers, multiplying such total annual subsidy by seventy-five per cent, and dividing such product by the number of 9-1-1 calls received for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018, at all such centers in existence on December 31, 2017;
(V) “RCALL” means the average, over the most recent three calendar years, of the number of 9-1-1 calls annually received by a regional public safety emergency telecommunications center; and
(VI) “RT” means the enhanced subsidization payment calculated under this subdivision for a regional public safety emergency telecommunications center described in subparagraph (A)(ii)(II) of this subdivision.
(iii) (I) On July 1, 2020, and annually thereafter, RPV and RCV shall be adjusted by the division in accordance with any increase in the consumer price index for all urban consumers as published by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, during the three calendar years preceding such adjustment.
(II) In the case of a member town or city of a regional public safety emergency telecommunications center for which such center does not provide emergency police, fire and medical services and emergency medical dispatch services, the RPOP and RCALL of such town or city shall not be included in such center's totals for the purpose of calculating enhanced subsidization payments under this subdivision, except that if such town or city is served exclusively by the Connecticut State Police for law enforcement purposes, the RPOP and RCALL of such town or city shall be so included only to the extent of the provision of emergency police services.
(iv) The enhanced subsidization payment for a regional public safety emergency telecommunications center described in subparagraph (A)(ii)(II) of this subdivision shall be calculated as follows: