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

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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]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7811

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 23, 2019
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to commercial mobile
          radio 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 service providers as an eligible
     5  telecommunications carrier for purposes of providing  lifeline  service,
     6  in  addition to any commercial mobile radio service providers designated
     7  as such pursuant to 47 U.S.C. § 214(e).  The commissioner is  authorized
     8  to  promulgate  all  rules  and  regulations  necessary to implement the
     9  provisions of this paragraph.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11763-01-9