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                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 21, 2010
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Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. N. Rivera)
  -- read once and referred to the Committee on  Corporations,  Authori-
  ties and Commissions

AN  ACT  to  amend  a  chapter  of the laws of 2010, amending the public
  service law and the general business law  relating  to  providing  for
  unlisted  telephone  numbers  without  charge  for  certain victims of
  domestic violence, as proposed in legislative bills  numbers  S.5615-A
  and  A.6509-B,  in  relation to authorizing and directing the New York
  state office of children and family services and the  New  York  state
  department  of  public service to assist the New York state office for
  prevention of domestic violence in preparing a comprehensive study

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Section  3 of a chapter of the laws of 2010, amending the
public service law and the general business law  relating  to  providing
for  unlisted  telephone  numbers  without charge for certain victims of
domestic violence, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.5615-A and
A.6509-B, is amended to read as follows:
  S 3. The New York state office [for prevention  of  domestic  violence
and  the  office] of children and family services AND THE NEW YORK STATE
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE  are  hereby  authorized  and  directed  to
assist  the  New  York  state  [department of public service] OFFICE FOR
PREVENTION OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE in preparing a comprehensive study docu-
menting: (1) the  number  of  victims  of  domestic  violence  who  have
received  either a modified or alternative name for a directory listing,
or a non-published telephone listing with all applicable charges waived,
between the effective date of this act  and  April  15,  2011;  (2)  the
fiscal  implications  for  New  York  telephone  services'  providers of
providing either a modified or alternative name for a directory listing,
or a non-published telephone listing with all applicable charges waived;
and (3) whether any grants, foundation funding or other  funding  exists
that  could  continue  to provide said victims of domestic violence with
the valuable service of non-published listings, or modified or  alterna-
tive listings, at no cost, without a fiscal impact upon the state of New

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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York,  or  upon the telephone corporations or cable television companies
providing such service. The findings and results of the study  shall  be
delivered, in the form of a report to the governor, the temporary presi-
dent  of the senate, and the speaker of the assembly on May 3, 2011. The
report shall also include recommended legislation that  will  assist  in
effectuating  the  legislature's goal of providing additional protection
for the victims of domestic violence by aiding  them  in  keeping  their
telephone number unknown by the perpetrator of violence upon them.
  S  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
manner as a chapter of the laws of 2010, amending the public service law
and the general business law relating to providing  for  unlisted  tele-
phone  numbers  without charge for certain victims of domestic violence,
as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.5615-A  and  A.6509-B,  takes
effect.