Bill Text: NY S03457 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 3457

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to information cable television companies must provide to subscribers regarding availability of required equipment at retail.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S03457 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03457-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          3457

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 31, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. SKOUFIS, COMRIE, KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Energy
          and Telecommunications

        AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to information cable
          television companies must provide to subscribers regarding availabili-
          ty of required equipment at retail

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 224-a of the public service law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows:
     3    (d) Each cable  television  company  shall  provide  to  each  of  its
     4  subscribers   at   the  time  of  the  initial  subscription  a  written
     5  description of: (1) the equipment required for  such  subscription;  (2)
     6  information regarding how or where a subscriber may purchase such equip-
     7  ment  at  retail; and (3) information regarding what retail equipment is
     8  compatible with the cable television company  system.  For  purposes  of
     9  this  paragraph  "equipment" shall include but not be limited to a modem
    10  or electronic device that makes possible the transmission of data to  or
    11  from a computer via telephone or other communication lines.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




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