Bill Text: NY S05126 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to attachments to utility poles for broadband service; provides that for a broadband internet provider that does not provide regulated telephone service, a pole owner shall not require such broadband internet provider to obtain a certificate of public convenience and necessity as a condition to making attachments to utility poles solely owned or jointly-owned by the pole owner.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S05126 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05126-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5126

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- 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 attachments to
          utility poles for broadband service

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  119-a  of  the  public service law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
     3    1-a. With respect to a  broadband  internet  provider  that  does  not
     4  provide regulated telephone service, a pole owner shall not require such
     5  broadband  internet  provider  to obtain a certificate of public conven-
     6  ience and necessity under section  ninety-nine  of  this  chapter  as  a
     7  condition to making attachments to utility poles solely owned or jointly
     8  owned by the pole owner.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09744-01-3