Bill Text: CT HB06401 | 2013 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

Connecticut House Bill 6401 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: An Act Concerning Interconnected Voice Over Internet Protocol Service And Internet Protocol-enabled Service.

Sponsorship: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-25 - File Number 129 [HB06401 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2013-HB06401-Comm_Sub.html

General Assembly		*Substitute Bill No. 6401*
*January Session, 2013*		_____HB06401ET____030813____

AN ACT CONCERNING INTERCONNECTED VOICE OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL SERVICE AND INTERNET PROTOCOL-ENABLED SERVICE.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2013) (a) For the purposes of this section:

(1) "Interconnected voice over Internet protocol service" means any service that (A) enables real-time, two-way voice communications that originate or terminate from the user's location using Internet protocol or a successor protocol, (B) uses a broadband connection from the user's location, and (C) permits users generally to receive calls that originate on the public-switched telephone network and to terminate calls to the public-switched telephone network; and

(2) "Internet protocol-enabled service" means any service, capability, functionality or application provided using Internet protocol or a successor protocol, other than interconnected voice over Internet protocol service, that enables an end user to send or receive a communication in Internet protocol format or a successor format, regardless of whether the communication is voice, data or video.

(b) Except as set forth in subsections (c) to (e), inclusive, of this section, and notwithstanding any other provision of the general statutes or any special act, no department, authority, agency, commission or political subdivision of the state shall enact, adopt or enforce, either directly or indirectly, any law, rule, regulation, ordinance, standard, order or other provision having the force or effect of law that regulates, or has the effect of regulating, the entry, rates, terms or conditions of interconnected voice over Internet protocol service or Internet protocol-enabled service.

(c) Subsection (b) of this section shall not be construed to affect the authority of the Attorney General to apply and enforce the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act, sections 42-110a to 42-110q, inclusive, of the general statutes, or other consumer protection laws of general applicability.

(d) Subsection (b) of this section shall not be construed to (1) affect, mandate or prohibit the assessment of enhanced 9-1-1 fees, telecommunications relay service fees or lifeline service fees on interconnected voice over Internet protocol service or any other voice over Internet protocol service, or (2) affect the authority of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority pursuant to subsection (a) of section 16-247e or section 16-32e of the general statutes.

(e) Subsection (b) of this section shall not be construed to (1) modify or affect (A) the rights, duties, obligations or authority of any entity pursuant to the provisions of 47 USC 251, 47 USC 252, any applicable tariff, or any state law, rule, regulation or order related to wholesale rights, duties and obligations, including the rights, duties, and obligations of local exchange carriers to interconnect and exchange voice traffic, or (B) the enforcement and other power of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority with respect to subparagraph (A) of this subdivision, (2) modify or affect the power of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority to implement, carry out and enforce such provisions, tariff, rights, duties or obligations through arbitration proceedings or other available mechanisms and procedures, (3) affect the payment of switched network access rates or other intercarrier compensation rates, as applicable, or (4) modify or affect any duty or obligation with respect to the provision of video or cable service by any entity pursuant to chapter 289 of the general statutes or any other applicable law or regulation.