Bill Text: NY A11130 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 11130 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires cable companies to charge the same rate for the same service to different subscribers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-07 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A11130 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A11130-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          11130
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      June 7, 2018
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Santabar-
          bara) -- read once and referred  to  the  Committee  on  Corporations,
          Authorities and Commissions
        AN  ACT  to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring cable
          companies to charge the same rate for the same service
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Subdivision 1 of section 225 of the public service law, as
     2  added by chapter 83 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as follows:
     3    1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, and  by  federal  law
     4  and regulation, the rates charged by a cable television company shall be
     5  those specified in the franchise which may establish, or provide for the
     6  establishment of reasonable classifications of service and categories of
     7  subscribers,  or  charge  different  rates for differing services or for
     8  subscribers in different categories.  No cable television company  shall
     9  charge a different rate for the same service to different subscribers.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15673-01-8