Bill Text: NY S04907 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires telegraph and telephone corporations to charge religious organizations residential rates.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-03 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S04907 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S04907-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4907 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 3, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sens. DIAZ, HAMILTON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Tele- communications AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring tele- graph and telephone corporations to offer residential rates to reli- gious organizations The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 92 of the public service law, as 2 amended by chapter 124 of the laws of 1911, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 3. [No] (a) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (b) of this 5 subdivision, no telegraph corporation or telephone corporation subject 6 to the provisions of this chapter shall, directly or indirectly, give 7 any free or reduced service, or any free pass or frank for the trans- 8 mission of messages by either telephone or telegraph between points 9 within this state, except to its officers, employees, agents, pension- 10 ers, surgeons, physicians, attorneys-at-law and their families; to 11 persons or corporations exclusively engaged in charitable and eleemosy- 12 nary work and ministers of religions; to officers and employees of other 13 telegraph corporations and telephone corporations, railroad corporations 14 and street railroad corporations. But this subdivision shall not apply 15 to state, municipal or federal contracts. 16 (b) No telegraph corporation or telephone corporation shall, directly 17 or indirectly, charge, demand, collect or receive a rate, which is in 18 excess of the applicable residential rate for the transmission of 19 messages by either telephone or telegraph between points within the 20 state, from any corporation or association organized and conducted in 21 good faith for religious purposes, including the operation of a school 22 regardless of whether secular subjects are taught therein, when such 23 corporation or association utilizes such services in connection with its 24 religious purposes. 25 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 26 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07189-01-7