Senate Bill S4180

2021-2022 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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2021-S4180 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Energy And Telecommunications
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Add §104, Pub Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S8933
2023-2024: S2589

2021-S4180 (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.

2021-S4180 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S4180 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4180
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 2, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
   cations
 
 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.
                                                            LBD02121-02-1



              

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