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Assembly Bill A4019

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Provides that rates charged by a local exchange telephone company serving over 350,000 access lines shall be equal to the rates of certain other rates charged

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2015-A4019 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Corporations, Authorities And Commissions
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง91, Pub Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A1424
2011-2012: A573
2013-2014: A2813

2015-A4019 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that certain rates charged by a local exchange telephone company serving over 350,000 access lines shall be equal to the rates charged by such company for the unbundled network elements which are components of each underlying service and facility provided to an owner or operator.

2015-A4019 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  4019

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 28, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to nondiscrimination
  on pay service telephone rates

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

  Section 1. Section 91 of the public service law is amended by adding a
new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
  8. THE RATES CHARGED BY A LOCAL  EXCHANGE  TELEPHONE  COMPANY  SERVING
OVER  THREE  HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND ACCESS LINES IN THIS STATE, FOR EACH
UNDERLYING SERVICE OR FACILITY, INCLUDING  BUT  NOT  LIMITED  TO  ACCESS
LINES, USAGE, FEATURES, FUNCTIONS, AND INSTALLATION, PROVIDED FOR RESALE
TO  AN  OWNER OR OPERATOR OF PUBLIC PAY TELEPHONES, FOR USE IN PROVIDING
PUBLIC PAY TELEPHONE SERVICE, SHALL BE EQUAL TO  THE  RATES  CHARGED  BY
SAID  LOCAL  EXCHANGE  TELEPHONE COMPANY TO A TELECOMMUNICATIONS CARRIER
FOR THE UNBUNDLED NETWORK ELEMENTS WHICH,  IN  THE  AGGREGATE,  ARE  THE
COMPONENTS OF EACH SUCH UNDERLYING SERVICE AND FACILITY PROVIDED TO SUCH
OWNER OR OPERATOR.
  S  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
have become a law.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD05185-01-5

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