Bill Text: NY S06936 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows the commission to designate any commercial mobile radio or cellular telephone service providers as an eligible telecommunications carrier for purposes of providing lifeline service.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-02-03 - SIGNED CHAP.13 [S06936 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06936-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6936

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 6, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to commercial mobile
          radio and cellular telephone service providers

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  c  of subdivision 6 of section 5 of the public
     2  service law, as amended by a chapter of the laws of 2019,  amending  the
     3  public  service  law  relating  to  commercial mobile radio and cellular
     4  telephone service providers, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.
     5  5782-A and A. 7811-A, is amended to read as follows:
     6    c. Notwithstanding paragraph a of this subdivision, the commission may
     7  designate any commercial mobile  radio  or  cellular  telephone  service
     8  providers  as  an  eligible  telecommunications  carrier for purposes of
     9  providing lifeline service, in addition to any commercial  mobile  radio
    10  or  cellular  telephone service providers designated as such pursuant to
    11  47 U.S.C. § 214(e) and 47 U.S.C. § 214(e)(2), without requiring any such
    12  provider to obtain a certificate of  public  convenience  and  necessity
    13  pursuant  to  section  ninety-nine of this chapter.   The [commissioner]
    14  commission is authorized to promulgate all rules and regulations  neces-
    15  sary to implement the provisions of this paragraph.
    16    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    17  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending the public service law
    18  relating to commercial  mobile  radio  and  cellular  telephone  service
    19  providers,  as  proposed  in  legislative bills numbers S. 5782-A and A.
    20  7811-A, takes effect.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11763-04-0