Bill Text: NY S01029 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires telecommunication service providers to provide notice relating to a service outage to the public service commission that includes information about geographic distribution of the outage and an estimate of the duration of the outage; requires providers to make information about restoration of service available to customers to the extent practicable.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-02 - PRINT NUMBER 1029A [S01029 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S01029-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1029--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 6, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BONACIC -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni- cations -- recommitted to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni- cations in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring tele- communication service providers to provide notice relating to service outages The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a new section 2 92-i to read as follows: 3 § 92-i. Notice of service outage. 1. The commission shall, by regu- 4 lations adopted or amended pursuant to this section, establish notice 5 requirements that shall apply to all telecommunications service provid- 6 ers, relating to service outages that last for twenty-four hours or 7 longer and which affect five customers per one hundred access lines or 8 more. For the purposes of this section, "telecommunications service 9 provider" or "provider of telecommunications services" shall mean a 10 telephone corporation certified in the state with the authority to 11 provide intrastate toll and local exchange service using either its own 12 or leased facilities. The commission shall include with the notice 13 requirements, methodologies for monitoring compliance with and enforce- 14 ment of such standards. 15 2. The terms used in this section except where expressly indicated 16 otherwise shall mean and be defined as set forth in 16 New York Code 17 Rules and Regulations section 603.3. 18 3. Every provider of telecommunications services shall provide notice 19 to the commissioner as soon as practicable but in no event later than a EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04894-02-8S. 1029--A 2 1 time certain to be determined by the commission, which shall include, at 2 a minimum: 3 (a) the approximate number of out-of-service customers by city, town 4 or other localized geographic location determined by the commission; and 5 (b) an estimate of the duration of such outage. 6 4. Every provider of telecommunications services shall, to the extent 7 practicable, make information relating to estimated duration of such 8 outage available to customers through the provider's website, local 9 media or any other medium determined by the commission. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 11 have become a law; provided, however, that the public service commission 12 is immediately authorized and directed to take any and all actions, 13 including but not limited to the promulgation of any rules, necessary to 14 fully implement the provisions of this act on its effective date.
