Bill Text: NY A07811 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to commercial mobile radio and cellular telephone service providers; permits the commission of public service to designate any commercial mobile radio or cellular telephone service provider as an eligible telecommunications carrier for purposes of providing lifeline service.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-1)

Status: (Passed) 2019-12-06 - SIGNED CHAP.606 [A07811 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07811-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7811--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 23, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced   by   M.  of  A.  PAULIN,  RICHARDSON,  QUART,  FALL,  OTIS,
          DE LA ROSA, CRUZ, GALEF, ASHBY, REYES -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions -- reported and
          referred to the Committee on Rules -- Rules Committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to the Committee
          on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to commercial mobile
          radio and cellular telephone service providers

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  6  of section 5 of the public service law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph c to read as follows:
     3    c. Notwithstanding paragraph a of this subdivision, the commission may
     4  designate any commercial mobile  radio  or  cellular  telephone  service
     5  providers  as  an  eligible  telecommunications  carrier for purposes of
     6  providing lifeline service, in addition to any commercial  mobile  radio
     7  or  cellular  telephone service providers designated as such pursuant to
     8  47 U.S.C. § 214(e) and 47 U.S.C. § 214(e)(2), without requiring any such
     9  provider to obtain a certificate of  public  convenience  and  necessity
    10  pursuant  to  section  ninety-nine of this chapter.  The commissioner is
    11  authorized to promulgate all rules and regulations necessary  to  imple-
    12  ment the provisions of this paragraph.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11763-02-9