Bill Text: NY A01223 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Creates standards by which the public service commission reviews and approves a merger or acquisition between telephone corporations, cable corporations and combination telephone and cable corporations.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 62-7)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-14 - ordered to third reading rules cal.329 [A01223 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A01223-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         1223--D
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     January 8, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. BRENNAN, PRETLOW, KAVANAGH, GUNTHER, LUPARDO,
          COLTON, ENGLEBRIGHT, LIFTON, CAHILL, ROBINSON,  MAGNARELLI,  ABINANTI,
          BENEDETTO,  GOLDFEDER,  JAFFEE,  PAULIN, ABBATE, ORTIZ, STIRPE, ROSEN-
          THAL, MILLER, WEPRIN, SKOUFIS, BARRETT,  STECK,  BRINDISI,  SEPULVEDA,
          DINOWITZ,  SEAWRIGHT,  OTIS,  MAYER, SANTABARBARA, ARROYO, RICHARDSON,
          FAHY, BICHOTTE, BARRON, DAVILA, COOK, HUNTER -- Multi-Sponsored by  --
          M.  of  A.   BUCHWALD, CERETTO, CRESPO, CROUCH, CYMBROWITZ, DenDEKKER,
          GALEF, GLICK, GOTTFRIED, HEVESI,  HOOPER,  LENTOL,  LOPEZ,  LUPINACCI,
          MARKEY,  McDONALD,  McDONOUGH,  MOSLEY, MURRAY, PEOPLES-STOKES, PERRY,
          QUART, RAIA, RAMOS, SCHIMEL, SIMON, SIMOTAS, SOLAGES,  THIELE,  TITONE
          --  read  once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authori-
          ties and Commissions -- committee discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted  as  amended  and  recommitted  to  said  committee -- again
          reported from said committee with  amendments,  ordered  reprinted  as
          amended  and  recommitted  to  said  committee  --  recommitted to the
          Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions  in  accordance
          with  Assembly  Rule  3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and  recommitted  to  said  committee  --
          reported  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Codes -- reported and
          referred to the Committee on Ways and Means --  committee  discharged,
          bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as amended and recommitted to said
          committee
        AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to  creating  stand-
          ards  by  which  the  public service commission reviews and approves a
          merger or acquisition between  telephone  corporations,  cable  corpo-
          rations, and combination telephone and cable corporations
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a  new  article
     2  12 to read as follows:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02448-10-6
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