Bill Text: NY S04029 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires certain notices to be provided to customers at least forty-five days before such telephone corporation intends to change such customer's telephone service from copper-based telephone lines to fiber optic-based telephone lines.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S04029 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4029
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 25, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
          cations
        AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring certain
          notices  to  be  provided  to  customers  receiving  telephone service
          through fiber optic-based telephone lines
          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  104 to read as follows:
     3    § 104. Notice to customers on fiber optic-based  telephone  lines.  1.
     4  The  commission  shall  require each telephone corporation that provides
     5  local exchange service to provide a  notice  containing  information  to
     6  customers  on  the  differences between copper-based telephone lines and
     7  fiber optic-based telephone lines at least forty-five days  before  such
     8  telephone  corporation  intends  to  change  such  customer's  telephone
     9  service from copper-based telephone lines to fiber optic-based telephone
    10  lines.  Such notice shall include, but not be limited to the  following:
    11  a  description  of  the differences between copper-based telephone lines
    12  and fiber optic-based  telephone  lines;  the  differences  between  the
    13  effect  a  power  outage would have on the telephone service provided by
    14  copper-based and fiber optic-based telephone lines, including the avail-
    15  ability of battery  back-up  options;  an  explanation  of  whether  the
    16  service  will  continue  to  be regulated by the commission; and a phone
    17  number and contact information for customers who seek additional  infor-
    18  mation or wish to make a complaint to the commission.
    19    2.  The  commission  shall  have  the  power to prescribe the form and
    20  content of the notice established pursuant to this section. The  commis-
    21  sion  may  from  time to time prescribe, by order, changes in the notice
    22  thereof.  The commission shall also have power to  establish  rules  and
    23  regulations for such notice and may from time to time modify the same.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    3.  Every  telephone  corporation  shall  file with the commission the
     2  notice established pursuant to this section and obtain  approval  as  to
     3  the  form  and content thereof prior to providing such notice to custom-
     4  ers.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, any such notice shall be deemed  to
     5  be approved by the commission ninety days after such corporation applies
     6  to  the commission for approval, unless the commission, or its designee,
     7  determines within such  ninety  day  period  that  the  public  interest
     8  requires the commission's review and its written order.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    10  it shall have become a law.