Bill Text: NY A07119 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to attachments to utility poles for broadband service; provides that for a broadband internet provider that does not provide regulated telephone service, a pole owner shall not require such broadband internet provider to obtain a certificate of public convenience and necessity as a condition to making attachments to utility poles solely owned or jointly-owned by the pole owner.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A07119 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07119-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7119--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 11, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. MEEKS, BRONSON, WALLACE, CLARK -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
          -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
          and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend the public service law, in relation to attachments to
          utility poles for broadband service

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  119-a  of  the  public service law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
     3    1-a. With respect to a  broadband  internet  provider  that  does  not
     4  provide regulated telephone service, a pole owner shall not require such
     5  broadband  internet  provider  to obtain a certificate of public conven-
     6  ience and necessity under section  ninety-nine  of  this  chapter  as  a
     7  condition to making attachments to utility poles solely owned or jointly
     8  owned by the pole owner.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this
     9  subdivision  shall  be  construed  to  confer  upon a broadband internet
    10  provider that does not provide regulated telephone service any  authori-
    11  zation to occupy or use any state or local public right-of-way.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09744-03-3