Bill Text: NY A03691 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits telephone corporations from charging a caller any increased rates, charges, or fees for long-distance or other calls without first notifying such caller.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-30 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A03691 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A03691-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          3691

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 30, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. MEEKS, MAMDANI, ZACCARO, ANDERSON, EPSTEIN, CRUZ,
          REYES,  GLICK, KELLES, LUCAS, GIBBS, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, WEPRIN, SANTA-
          BARBARA, HYNDMAN, RAGA -- Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M.  of  A.  DAVILA,
          LEVENBERG,  SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Corpo-
          rations, Authorities and Commissions

        AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to prohibiting tele-
          phone corporations from charging a caller any increased rates,  charg-
          es,  or  fees for long-distance or other calls without first notifying
          such caller

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

     1    Section  1.   Subdivision 2 of section 91 of the public service law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
     3    (c) No telephone corporation shall charge, demand, collect, or receive
     4  from any person or corporation an increased rate, charge, or fee for any
     5  call made or received by such person or  corporation  without  notifying
     6  such  person  or  corporation  at  the  beginning  of  such call of such
     7  increased rate, charge, or fee. Increased rates, charges, or fees  under
     8  this  paragraph  shall  include  but  not be limited to increased rates,
     9  charges, or fees for long-distance calls made or received by a person or
    10  corporation.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    12  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    13  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    14  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
    15  on or before such effective date.


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