Bill Text: NY S02088 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to requiring internet service providers to charge a residential rate to emergency service organizations; creates a new article for the regulation of internet service providers.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO INTERNET AND TECHNOLOGY [S02088 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S02088-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2088--A 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 19, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sens. JORDAN, AKSHAR, BOYLE, OBERACKER, THOMAS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Internet and Technology -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring internet service providers to charge a residential rate to certain emergency service organizations The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new article 2 40 to read as follows: 3 ARTICLE 40 4 INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS 5 Section 900. Definitions. 6 901. Rates for emergency service organizations. 7 § 900. Definitions. For the purpose of this article: 1. "Internet 8 service provider" means any person, business or organization qualified 9 to do business in this state that provides individuals, corporations, or 10 other entities with the ability to connect to the internet through 11 equipment that is located in this state. 12 2. "Emergency service organization" means any voluntary fire or ambu- 13 lance company. 14 § 901. Rates for emergency service organizations. No internet service 15 provider shall charge any emergency service organization an amount which 16 is more than the rate charged to residential customers of such internet 17 service provider. When such internet service provider charges different 18 rates for business customers and residential customers, emergency 19 service organizations shall be charged the residential rate. Notwith- 20 standing the charging of a residential rate, service provided to emer- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01402-03-1S. 2088--A 2 1 gency service organizations shall be provided at the level of service 2 provided by such internet service provider to business customers. 3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 4 have become a law.
