Bill Text: NY S04180 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 4180 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires telephone companies to alert customers to replace telephone backup battery units and to provide one backup battery unit to each customer every three years.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S04180 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S04180-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4180

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 2, 2021
                                       ___________

        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 tele-
          phone companies to alert customers to replace telephone backup battery
          units and to provide one backup battery unit to  each  customer  every
          three years

          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. Backup telephone battery units. The commission, consistent with
     4  federal law, shall require any regulated telephone corporation providing
     5  facilities-based,  fixed  voice  service that is not line-powered by the
     6  provider, and is offered as  a  residential  service,  to  provide  such
     7  customers  with  a  biennial  notice detailing the need to replace their
     8  backup battery units, that provide a power solution  for  911  emergency
     9  access in the event of residential power loss, when such units reach the
    10  end  of  their  usable  life,  and provide one backup battery unit every
    11  three years, or at a rate of time to be  determined  by  the  commission
    12  that  ensures 911 emergency access for twenty-four hours in the event of
    13  residential power loss, at the customer's option  and  free  of  charge.
    14  The  commission shall promulgate rules and regulations to implement this
    15  section.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    17  have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02121-02-1