Bill Text: NY A01198 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires cable companies to charge the same rate for the same service to different subscribers.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-6)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A01198 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01198-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1198

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 13, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

        AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to  requiring  cable
          companies to charge the same rate for the same service

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 225 of the public service law,  as
     2  added by chapter 83 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as follows:
     3    1.  Except  as  otherwise provided in this section, and by federal law
     4  and regulation, the rates charged by a cable television company shall be
     5  those specified in the franchise which may establish, or provide for the
     6  establishment of reasonable classifications of service and categories of
     7  subscribers, or charge different rates for  differing  services  or  for
     8  subscribers  in different categories.  No cable television company shall
     9  charge a different rate for the same service to different subscribers.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02448-01-3