Bill Text: NY S05115 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO INTERNET AND TECHNOLOGY [S05115 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05115-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5115

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sen. OBERACKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Internet and Technology

        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  42 to read as follows:
     3                                 ARTICLE 42
     4                         INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS
     5  Section 1100. Definitions.
     6          1101. Rates for emergency service organizations.
     7    § 1100. 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    § 1101. 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-
    21  gency  service  organizations  shall be provided at the level of service
    22  provided by such internet service provider to business customers.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    24  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09177-01-3