Bill Text: NY A05229 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for unlisted telephone directory numbers without charge, for victims of domestic violence for whose benefit an order of protection has been issued by a court of competent jurisdiction.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A05229 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05229-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5229

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 7, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. WILLIAMS -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the public service law, in relation to providing for
          unlisted telephone numbers  without  charge  for  certain  victims  of
          domestic violence

          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 15 to read as follows:
     3    15. Every local exchange telephone corporation shall, where  an  order
     4  of  protection exists and at the customer's request (accompanying a copy
     5  of the order), waive the charges therefor and omit from any directory of
     6  telephone numbers published by it or an affiliated company  the  listing
     7  of  any  person  who  is  a  victim  of domestic violence, as defined in
     8  section four hundred fifty-nine-a of the social services  law,  and  for
     9  whose  benefit  any order of protection, other than a temporary order of
    10  protection, has been issued by a court of  competent  jurisdiction,  for
    11  the duration of such order.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    13  it  shall  have  become  a law. Effective immediately the public service
    14  commission is authorized to promulgate any and all rules and regulations
    15  and take any other measures necessary  to  implement  this  act  on  its
    16  effective date on or before such date.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08677-01-3