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Senate Bill S174

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires charges for telephone calls based on duration, whether over lines or by cellular, to be charged and prorated by the second basis

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2023-S174 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10170
Current Committee:
Senate Energy And Telecommunications
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§91 & 92-c, Pub Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S2511
2013-2014: S577
2015-2016: S2425
2017-2018: S2671
2019-2020: S1282
2021-2022: S1248
2025-2026: S7227, A6120

2023-S174 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires charges for telephone calls based on duration, whether over lines or by cellular, to be charged and prorated by the second; applies to all service providers; authorizes the public service commission to promulgate rules and regulations.

2023-S174 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S174 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    174
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 4, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. GIANARIS, KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and  when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Tele-
   communications
 
 AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to charges for tele-
   phone service on a by the second basis

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 91 of the public service law, as
 added by chapter 673 of the laws of 1910, is amended to read as follows:
   1. Every telegraph corporation and every telephone  corporation  shall
 furnish  and provide with respect to its business such instrumentalities
 and facilities as shall be adequate and in all respects just and reason-
 able. All charges made or demanded by any telegraph corporation or tele-
 phone corporation  for  any  service  rendered  or  to  be  rendered  in
 connection  therewith  shall  be  just  and reasonable and not more than
 allowed by law or by order of the commission. EVERY CHARGE FOR  TELECOM-
 MUNICATIONS SERVICE, WHETHER BY MEANS OF A TELEPHONE LINE OR BY MEANS OF
 CELLULAR  RADIO  COMMUNICATION, MADE ON THE BASIS OF THE DURATION OF THE
 COMMUNICATION SHALL BE CHARGED AND PRORATED BY THE SECOND. Every  unjust
 or  unreasonable  charge  made  or  demanded  for any such service or in
 connection therewith or in excess of that allowed by law or by order  of
 the commission is prohibited and declared to be unlawful.
   § 2. The section heading of section 92-c of the public service law, as
 added  by  chapter 697 of the laws of 1990, is amended, subdivision 1 is
 amended by adding a new paragraph (c) and a new subdivision 12 is  added
 to read as follows:
   Customer  service  requirements  for  AGGREGATORS,  alternate operator
 service providers and COCOT service providers.
   (C) THE TERM "AGGREGATOR" MEANS ANY HOTEL, MOTEL, INNKEEPER, SCHOOL OR
 HOSPITAL WHICH IS NOT A TELEGRAPH CORPORATION OR TELEPHONE  CORPORATION,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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