Bill Text: NY S06943 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
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: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION [S06943 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S06943-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6943 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE November 13, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MARCHIONE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring internet service providers to charge a residential rate to 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 40 to read as follows: 3 ARTICLE 40 4 INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS 5 Section 900. Definitions. 6 901. Rates for emergency service organizations. 7 § 900. 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 police department, fire 13 department or ambulance service of a political subdivision of this 14 state, or a voluntary fire or ambulance company. 15 § 901. Rates for emergency service organizations. No internet service 16 provider shall charge any emergency service organization an amount which 17 is more than the rate charged to residential customers of such internet 18 service provider. When such internet service provider charges different 19 rates for business customers and residential customers, emergency 20 service providers shall be charged the residential rate. 21 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 22 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13749-01-7