Bill Text: NY S07172 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits telephone corporations from charging a caller any increased rates, charges, or fees for intrastate long-distance or other calls without first notifying such caller.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-25 - PRINT NUMBER 7172A [S07172 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7172

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 18, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  COONEY -- 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 prohibiting tele-
          phone  corporations from charging a caller any increased rates, charg-
          es, or fees for long-distance or other calls without  first  notifying
          such caller

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

     1    Section 1.  Subdivision 2 of section 91 of the public service  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
     3    (c) No telephone corporation shall charge, demand, collect, or receive
     4  from any person or corporation an increased rate, charge, or fee for any
     5  call  made  or  received by such person or corporation without notifying
     6  such person or corporation  at  the  beginning  of  such  call  of  such
     7  increased  rate, charge, or fee. Increased rates, charges, or fees under
     8  this paragraph shall include but not  be  limited  to  increased  rates,
     9  charges, or fees for long-distance calls made or received by a person or
    10  corporation.
    11    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    12  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    13  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
    14  this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
    15  on or before such effective date.



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