Amd §5, Pub Serv L (as proposed in S.5782-A & A.7811-A)
Allows the commission to designate any commercial mobile radio or cellular telephone service providers as an eligible telecommunications carrier for purposes of providing lifeline service.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8986
IN ASSEMBLY
January 7, 2020
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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 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. Paragraph c of subdivision 6 of section 5 of the public
2 service law, as amended by a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending the
3 public service law relating to commercial mobile radio and cellular
4 telephone service providers, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.
5 5782-A and A. 7811-A, is amended to read as follows:
6 c. Notwithstanding paragraph a of this subdivision, the commission may
7 designate any commercial mobile radio or cellular telephone service
8 providers as an eligible telecommunications carrier for purposes of
9 providing lifeline service, in addition to any commercial mobile radio
10 or cellular telephone service providers designated as such pursuant to
11 47 U.S.C. § 214(e) and 47 U.S.C. § 214(e)(2), without requiring any such
12 provider to obtain a certificate of public convenience and necessity
13 pursuant to section ninety-nine of this chapter. The [commissioner]
14 commission is authorized to promulgate all rules and regulations neces-
15 sary to implement the provisions of this paragraph.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
17 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending the public service law
18 relating to commercial mobile radio and cellular telephone service
19 providers, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 5782-A and A.
20 7811-A, takes effect.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11763-04-0
