S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1424 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y (PREFILED) January 7, 2009 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to nondiscrimination on pay service telephone rates THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Section 91 of the public service law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 7 to read as follows: 3 7. THE RATES CHARGED BY A LOCAL EXCHANGE TELEPHONE COMPANY SERVING 4 OVER THREE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND ACCESS LINES IN THIS STATE, FOR EACH 5 UNDERLYING SERVICE OR FACILITY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ACCESS 6 LINES, USAGE, FEATURES, FUNCTIONS, AND INSTALLATION, PROVIDED FOR RESALE 7 TO AN OWNER OR OPERATOR OF PUBLIC PAY TELEPHONES, FOR USE IN PROVIDING 8 PUBLIC PAY TELEPHONE SERVICE, SHALL BE EQUAL TO THE RATES CHARGED BY 9 SAID LOCAL EXCHANGE TELEPHONE COMPANY TO A TELECOMMUNICATIONS CARRIER 10 FOR THE UNBUNDLED NETWORK ELEMENTS WHICH, IN THE AGGREGATE, ARE THE 11 COMPONENTS OF EACH SUCH UNDERLYING SERVICE AND FACILITY PROVIDED TO SUCH 12 OWNER OR OPERATOR. 13 S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 14 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00167-01-9