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
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
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 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