Directs the commission to establish standards and safeguards for certain radio and phone providers to meet eligibility to provide lifeline services to be applicable to new applicants only.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5062
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 23, 2021
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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 directing the
commission to establish standards and safeguards for certain radio and
phone providers to meet eligibility to provide lifeline services
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 chapter 13 of the laws of 2020, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 c. Notwithstanding paragraph a of this subdivision, the commission may
5 designate any commercial mobile radio or cellular telephone service
6 providers as an eligible telecommunications carrier for purposes of
7 providing lifeline service, in addition to any commercial mobile radio
8 or cellular telephone service providers designated as such pursuant to
9 47 U.S.C. § 214(e) and 47 U.S.C. § 214(e)(2), without requiring any such
10 provider to obtain a certificate of public convenience and necessity
11 pursuant to section ninety-nine of this chapter. The commission is
12 authorized and directed to promulgate all rules and regulations neces-
13 sary to implement the provisions of this paragraph, and to establish
14 standards and safeguards for approval as an eligible telecommunications
15 carrier for purposes of providing lifeline service. Such standards and
16 safeguards shall include, but not be limited to, the provider's manage-
17 rial, financial and technical capability and expertise, including wheth-
18 er the provider has forfeited eligible telecommunications carrier desig-
19 nation in another state or been subject to the imposition of substantial
20 monetary penalties by the federal communications commission or another
21 state. Upon adoption by the commission, such standards and safeguards
22 shall apply to new applicants, and shall not apply to previously
23 approved providers or affiliated entities of such providers with common
24 financial, managerial and technical capability and expertise.
25 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09906-01-1
