Bill Text: NY A05967 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires certain notices to be provided to customers at least forty-five days before such telephone corporation intends to change such customer telephone service from copper-based telephone lines to fiber optic-based telephone lines.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 20-6)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - ordered to third reading cal.224 [A05967 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5967
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 20, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, BUCHWALD, DE LA ROSA, GALEF, JEAN-PIERRE,
          ABINANTI,  DINOWITZ,  ENGLEBRIGHT, EPSTEIN, HUNTER, GOTTFRIED, JAFFEE,
          PICHARDO, McDONOUGH, REILLY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. DeSTEFA-
          NO, MANKTELOW, MIKULIN, SIMON, THIELE -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
        AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring certain
          notices to  be  provided  to  customers  receiving  telephone  service
          through fiber optic-based telephone lines
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a  new  section
     2  104 to read as follows:
     3    §  104.  Notice  to customers on fiber optic-based telephone lines. 1.
     4  The commission shall require each telephone  corporation  that  provides
     5  local  exchange  service  to  provide a notice containing information to
     6  customers on the differences between copper-based  telephone  lines  and
     7  fiber  optic-based  telephone lines at least forty-five days before such
     8  telephone  corporation  intends  to  change  such  customer's  telephone
     9  service from copper-based telephone lines to fiber optic-based telephone
    10  lines.   Such notice shall include, but not be limited to the following:
    11  a description of the differences between  copper-based  telephone  lines
    12  and  fiber  optic-based  telephone  lines;  the  differences between the
    13  effect a power outage would have on the telephone  service  provided  by
    14  copper-based and fiber optic-based telephone lines, including the avail-
    15  ability  of  battery  back-up  options;  an  explanation  of whether the
    16  service will continue to be regulated by the  commission;  and  a  phone
    17  number  and contact information for customers who seek additional infor-
    18  mation or wish to make a complaint to the commission.
    19    2. The commission shall have the  power  to  prescribe  the  form  and
    20  content  of the notice established pursuant to this section. The commis-
    21  sion may from time to time prescribe, by order, changes  in  the  notice
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        A. 5967                             2
     1  thereof.    The  commission shall also have power to establish rules and
     2  regulations for such notice and may from time to time modify the same.
     3    3.  Every  telephone  corporation  shall  file with the commission the
     4  notice established pursuant to this section and obtain  approval  as  to
     5  the  form  and content thereof prior to providing such notice to custom-
     6  ers.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, any such notice shall be deemed  to
     7  be approved by the commission ninety days after such corporation applies
     8  to  the commission for approval, unless the commission, or its designee,
     9  determines within such  ninety  day  period  that  the  public  interest
    10  requires the commission's review and its written order.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    12  it shall have become a law.