Bill Text: CA SB1205 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Telecommunications: universal service.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From committee without further action. [SB1205 Detail]
Download: California-2015-SB1205-Introduced.html
BILL NUMBER: SB 1205 INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Senator Morrell FEBRUARY 18, 2016 An act to amend Section 871.5 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to telecommunications. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 1205, as introduced, Morrell. Telecommunications: universal service. Existing law, the Moore Universal Telephone Service Act, establishes the Universal Lifeline Telephone Service program to provide low-income households with access to affordable basic residential telephone service. The act makes legislative findings and declarations regarding lifeline telephone service. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those findings and declarations. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 871.5 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read: 871.5. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The offering of high-quality basic telephone service at affordable rates to the greatest number of citizens has been a longstanding goal of the state. (b) The Moore Universal Telephone Service Act has been, and continues to be, an important means for achieving universal service by making basic telephone service affordable to low-income households through the creation of a lifeline class of service. (c) Every means should be employed by the commission and telephone corporations to ensure that every household qualified to receive lifeline telephone service is informedofof, and is afforded the opportunitytoto, subscribe to that service. (d) The furnishing of lifeline telephone service is in the public interest and should be supported fairly and equitably by every telephone corporation, and the commission, in administering the lifeline telephone service program, should implement the program in a way that is equitable, nondiscriminatory, and without competitive consequences for the telecommunications industry inCaliforniathis state .