Bill Text: NY S06138 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Relates to permitted changes in rate schedules for telephone companies; provides that a "major change" shall mean an increase in rates, charges and rentals which would increase the aggregate revenues of the applicant more than the greater of five hundred thousand dollars or two and one-half percent.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-12-17 - SIGNED CHAP.517 [S06138 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S06138-Amended.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        6138--A
           Cal. No. 186
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 8, 2014
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  Sen. MAZIARZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
         cations  --  reported  favorably from said committee, ordered to first
         and second report, ordered to a third reading, passed  by  Senate  and
         delivered  to  the  Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to
         third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its  place  in
         the order of third reading
       AN  ACT  to amend the public service law, in relation to changes in rate
         schedules for telephone companies
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 2 of section 92 of the public
    2  service law, as amended by chapter 162 of the laws of 1998,  is  amended
    3  to read as follows:
    4    (c) For the purpose of this subdivision, "major changes" shall mean an
    5  increase  in  rates, charges and rentals which would increase the aggre-
    6  gate revenues of the applicant more than the  greater  of  [three]  FIVE
    7  hundred  thousand  dollars  or  two  and one-half percent, but shall not
    8  include changes in rates, charges or rentals allowed to go  into  effect
    9  by  the  commission  or  made by the utility pursuant to an order of the
   10  commission after hearings held  upon  notice  to  the  public.    IF  AN
   11  INCREASE  IN  RATES,  CHARGES  AND  RENTALS WOULD INCREASE THE AGGREGATE
   12  REVENUES OF THE APPLICANT BY LESS THAN FIVE  HUNDRED  THOUSAND  DOLLARS,
   13  THE  COMMISSION  MAY  HOLD  A  HEARING PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH (E) OF THIS
   14  SUBDIVISION AND/OR PROVIDE A STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION  FOUR  OF
   15  THIS SECTION.
   16    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD13142-03-4
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