Senate Bill S8933

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring telephone companies to alert customers to replace telephone backup battery units and to provide one backup battery unit to each customer every three years

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-S8933 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Add §104, Pub Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S4180
2023-2024: S2589

2019-S8933 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires telephone companies to alert customers to replace telephone backup battery units and to provide one backup battery unit to each customer every three years.

2019-S8933 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S8933 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8933
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              August 21, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to  requiring  tele-
   phone companies to alert customers to replace telephone backup battery
   units  and  to  provide one backup battery unit to each customer every
   three years

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The public service law is amended by adding a new section
 104 to read as follows:
   § 104. BACKUP TELEPHONE BATTERY UNITS. THE COMMISSION, CONSISTENT WITH
 FEDERAL LAW, SHALL REQUIRE ANY REGULATED TELEPHONE CORPORATION PROVIDING
 FACILITIES-BASED, FIXED VOICE SERVICE THAT IS NOT  LINE-POWERED  BY  THE
 PROVIDER,  AND  IS  OFFERED  AS  A  RESIDENTIAL SERVICE, TO PROVIDE SUCH
 CUSTOMERS WITH A BIENNIAL NOTICE DETAILING THE  NEED  TO  REPLACE  THEIR
 BACKUP  BATTERY  UNITS,  THAT PROVIDE A POWER SOLUTION FOR 911 EMERGENCY
 ACCESS IN THE EVENT OF RESIDENTIAL POWER LOSS, WHEN SUCH UNITS REACH THE
 END OF THEIR USABLE LIFE, AND PROVIDE  ONE  BACKUP  BATTERY  UNIT  EVERY
 THREE  YEARS,  OR  AT  A RATE OF TIME TO BE DETERMINED BY THE COMMISSION
 THAT ENSURES 911 EMERGENCY ACCESS FOR TWENTY-FOUR HOURS IN THE EVENT  OF
 RESIDENTIAL  POWER  LOSS,  AT  THE CUSTOMER'S OPTION AND FREE OF CHARGE.
 THE COMMISSION SHALL PROMULGATE RULES AND REGULATIONS TO IMPLEMENT  THIS
 SECTION.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16650-01-0



              

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