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Senate Bill S1152

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring internet service providers to charge a residential rate to emergency service organizations

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2025-S1152 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Internet And Technology
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 42-A §§1200 & 1201, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S6943
2019-2020: S2820
2021-2022: S2088
2023-2024: S5115

2025-S1152 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires internet service providers to charge a residential rate to emergency service organizations; creates a new article for the regulation of internet service providers.

2025-S1152 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S1152 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1152
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. OBERACKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Internet and Technology
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  general  business law, in relation to requiring
   internet service providers to charge a  residential  rate  to  certain
   emergency service organizations

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new article
 42-A to read as follows:
                               ARTICLE 42-A
                        INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS
 SECTION 1200. DEFINITIONS.
         1201. RATES FOR EMERGENCY SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS.
   § 1200. DEFINITIONS. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS ARTICLE:    1.  "INTERNET
 SERVICE  PROVIDER"  MEANS ANY PERSON, BUSINESS OR ORGANIZATION QUALIFIED
 TO DO BUSINESS IN THIS STATE THAT PROVIDES INDIVIDUALS, CORPORATIONS, OR
 OTHER ENTITIES WITH THE ABILITY  TO  CONNECT  TO  THE  INTERNET  THROUGH
 EQUIPMENT THAT IS LOCATED IN THIS STATE.
   2.  "EMERGENCY SERVICE ORGANIZATION" MEANS ANY VOLUNTARY FIRE OR AMBU-
 LANCE COMPANY.
   § 1201. RATES FOR EMERGENCY SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS. NO INTERNET SERVICE
 PROVIDER SHALL CHARGE ANY EMERGENCY SERVICE ORGANIZATION AN AMOUNT WHICH
 IS MORE THAN THE RATE CHARGED TO RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS OF SUCH  INTERNET
 SERVICE  PROVIDER. WHEN SUCH INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER CHARGES DIFFERENT
 RATES  FOR  BUSINESS  CUSTOMERS  AND  RESIDENTIAL  CUSTOMERS,  EMERGENCY
 SERVICE  ORGANIZATIONS  SHALL BE CHARGED THE RESIDENTIAL RATE.  NOTWITH-
 STANDING THE CHARGING OF A RESIDENTIAL RATE, SERVICE PROVIDED  TO  EMER-
 GENCY  SERVICE  ORGANIZATIONS  SHALL BE PROVIDED AT THE LEVEL OF SERVICE
 PROVIDED BY SUCH INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER TO BUSINESS CUSTOMERS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03517-01-5

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