Bill Text: NY A07119 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to attachments to utility poles for broadband service; provides that for a broadband internet provider that does not provide regulated telephone service, a pole owner shall not require such broadband internet provider to obtain a certificate of public convenience and necessity as a condition to making attachments to utility poles solely owned or jointly-owned by the pole owner.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A07119 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07119-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7119

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 11, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. MEEKS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

        AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation  to  attachments  to
          utility poles for broadband service

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

     1    Section 1. Section 119-a of the  public  service  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
     3    1-a.  With  respect  to  a  broadband  internet provider that does not
     4  provide regulated telephone service, a pole owner shall not require such
     5  broadband internet provider to obtain a certificate  of  public  conven-
     6  ience  and  necessity  under  section  ninety-nine  of this chapter as a
     7  condition to making attachments to utility poles solely owned or jointly
     8  owned by the pole owner.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09744-01-3