STATE OF NEW YORK
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2202
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 23, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
cations
AN ACT to require the public service commission to undertake a study on
various approaches to increasing broadband access within this state;
and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration there-
of
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public service commission shall, within thirty days of
2 the effective date of this act, undertake a study on various approaches
3 to increasing broadband access within this state. The public service
4 commission shall study and make determinations on issues including but
5 not limited to: (i) current broadband capacity within this state,
6 including average internet access speeds statewide and in various
7 regions of the state; (ii) regulatory and statutory barriers to improv-
8 ing broadband speeds; (iii) comparative state policies that have aided
9 the increase in broadband speeds in other states, and whether such meas-
10 ures would be similarly effective in this state; (iv) whether the use of
11 public-private partnerships would aid in the goal of increasing broad-
12 band speeds, and whether relevant businesses would be open to such part-
13 nerships; and (v) best practices recommended within the National Broad-
14 band Plan issued by the Federal Communications Commission and whether
15 the public service commission can readily adopt and put into place any
16 such recommendations.
17 § 2. The public service commission may conduct any hearings or take
18 any written testimony as it deems necessary in order to aid such study,
19 and shall take all other steps necessary to provide a thorough analysis
20 of all issues related to the provisions listed in section one of this
21 act.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 3. The public service commission shall issue its final report no
2 later than one hundred eighty days after the effective date of this act.
3 The commission shall issue its final report to the governor, the speaker
4 of the assembly, the temporary president of the senate, and the chair of
5 the assembly committee on energy and the senate committee on energy and
6 telecommunications, and post a copy of such report on its website.
7 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire one year
8 after the day on which this act shall have become a law.