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Newsom also is throwing his support behind imposing a 911 fee on phone bills, starting in 2020, to help pay for improving that critical emergency communications system statewide, a measure that would require a two-thirds vote of approval by state lawmakers. To make the idea more enticing to the Legislature, where the fee proposal failed last session, the governor proposed spending $60 million over the next two years to jump-start the 911 overhaul.
Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times