Bill Text: NY S05782 | 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 service provider as an eligible telecommunications carrier for purposes of providing lifeline service.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-12-06 - SIGNED CHAP.606 [S05782 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5782

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 14, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
          cations

        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
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