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
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