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

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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]

Download: New_York-2019-A05967-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5967--A
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 20, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, BUCHWALD, DE LA ROSA, GALEF, JEAN-PIERRE,
          ABINANTI,  DINOWITZ,  ENGLEBRIGHT, EPSTEIN, HUNTER, GOTTFRIED, JAFFEE,
          PICHARDO, McDONOUGH, REILLY, COOK, STECK, RAIA --  Multi-Sponsored  by
          -- M. of A.  DeSTEFANO, MANKTELOW, MIKULIN, SIMON, THIELE -- read once
          and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commis-
          sions  -- reported and referred to the Committee on Codes -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        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 prior to when such telephone corpo-
     8  ration intends to change such customer's telephone service from  copper-
     9  based  telephone lines to fiber optic-based telephone lines.  Except (i)
    10  in cases of an emergency, or (ii) upon the request of the customer, such
    11  notice shall be provided to the customer at least forty-five days before
    12  such telephone corporation intends to change such  customer's  telephone
    13  service from copper-based telephone lines to fiber optic-based telephone
    14  lines.   Such notice shall include, but not be limited to the following:
    15  a description of the differences between  copper-based  telephone  lines
    16  and  fiber  optic-based  telephone  lines;  the  differences between the
    17  effect a power outage would have on the telephone  service  provided  by
    18  copper-based and fiber optic-based telephone lines, including the avail-
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  ability  of  battery  back-up  options;  an  explanation  of whether the
     2  service will continue to be regulated by the  commission;  and  a  phone
     3  number  and contact information for customers who seek additional infor-
     4  mation or wish to make a complaint to the commission.
     5    2.  The  commission  shall  have  the  power to prescribe the form and
     6  content of the notice established pursuant to this section. The  commis-
     7  sion  may  from  time to time prescribe, by order, changes in the notice
     8  thereof.  The commission shall also have power to  establish  rules  and
     9  regulations for such notice and may from time to time modify the same.
    10    3.  Every  telephone  corporation  shall  file with the commission the
    11  notice established pursuant to this section and obtain  approval  as  to
    12  the  form  and content thereof prior to providing such notice to custom-
    13  ers.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, any such notice shall be deemed  to
    14  be approved by the commission ninety days after such corporation applies
    15  to  the commission for approval, unless the commission, or its designee,
    16  determines within such  ninety  day  period  that  the  public  interest
    17  requires the commission's review and its written order.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    19  it shall have become a law.