Bill Text: CA AB1480 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Telephone corporations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-02 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB1480 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB1480-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1480	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Tran

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to amend Section 234 of the Public Utilities Code, relating
to telecommunications.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1480, as introduced, Tran. Telephone corporations.
   Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory
authority over public utilities, including telephone corporations,
as defined.
   This bill would provide that the definition of a telephone
corporation does not include any service using voice communication
technology primarily to allow individual users to navigate and
retrieve information from the Internet, as defined.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 234 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to
read:
   234.  (a) "Telephone corporation" includes every corporation or
person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any telephone line
for compensation within this state.
   (b) "Telephone corporation" does not include any of the following:

   (1) Any hospital, hotel, motel, or similar place of temporary
accommodation owning or operating message switching or billing
equipment solely for the purpose of reselling services provided by a
telephone corporation to its patients or guests.
   (2) Any one-way paging service utilizing facilities that are
licensed by the Federal Communications Commission, including, but not
limited to, narrowband personal communications services described in
Subpart D (commencing with Section 24.100) of Part 24 of Title 47 of
the Code of Federal Regulations, as in effect on June 13, 1995. 

   (3) Any service using voice communication technology primarily to
allow individual users to navigate and retrieve information from the
Internet, as defined in Section 22947 of the Business and Professions
Code.