Prohibits telephone corporations from charging a caller any increased rates, charges, or fees for intrastate long-distance or other calls without first notifying such caller.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7172--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 18, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. COONEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
cations -- recommitted to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
cations in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to prohibiting tele-
phone corporations from charging a caller any increased rates, charg-
es, or fees for intrastate long-distance or other calls without first
notifying such caller
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 91 of the public service law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
3 (c) No telephone corporation shall charge, demand, collect, or receive
4 from any person or corporation an increased rate, charge, or fee for any
5 call made or received by such person or corporation without notifying
6 such person or corporation at the beginning of such call of such
7 increased rate, charge, or fee. Increased rates, charges, or fees under
8 this paragraph shall include but not be limited to increased rates,
9 charges, or fees for intrastate long-distance calls made or received
10 intrastate by a person or corporation.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
12 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
13 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
14 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
15 on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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