Bill Text: NY A02499 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to information cable television companies must provide to subscribers regarding availability of required equipment at retail.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-06-03 - REFERRED TO RULES [A02499 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A02499-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2499--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 19, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions --  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 commit-
          tee

        AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to information cable
          television companies must provide to subscribers regarding availabili-
          ty of required equipment at retail

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 224-a of the public service law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows:
     3    (d)  Each  cable  television  company  shall  provide  to  each of its
     4  subscribers  at  the  time  of  the  initial  subscription   a   written
     5  description  of:  (1)  the equipment required for such subscription; (2)
     6  information regarding how or where a subscriber may purchase such equip-
     7  ment at retail; and (3) information regarding what retail  equipment  is
     8  compatible  with  the  cable  television company system. For purposes of
     9  this paragraph "equipment" shall include but not be limited to  a  modem
    10  or  electronic device that makes possible the transmission of data to or
    11  from a computer via telephone or other communication lines.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



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