Bill Text: CA AB2765 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Public Utilities Commission: reports: telecommunications service: backup electricity.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-09-27 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 740, Statutes of 2024. [AB2765 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB2765-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2765

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Introduced by Assembly Member Pellerin

February 15, 2024

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An act to amend Section 2889.3 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to telecommunications.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2765, as introduced, Pellerin. Telephone corporations: interexchange services.

Existing law requires a telephone corporation, before withdrawing from the business of providing interexchange service to all of its customers or to an entire class of its customers, to provide those affected customers with a written notice containing certain information at least 30 days before the proposed transfer of those customers to another telephone corporation.

This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that requirement.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 2889.3 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read:

2889.3.

 (a) (1) Before a telephone corporation exits withdraws from the business of providing interexchange services to all of its customers or to an entire class of its customers, the telephone corporation or any a person, firm, or corporation representing the telephone corporation, corporation shall provide those affected customers with a written notice at least 30 days prior to before the proposed transfer of those customers to another telephone corporation. The notice shall include all of the following:

(A) A straightforward description of the proposed transfer.

(B) All applicable rates, terms, and conditions of the new service.

(C) A statement of the customer’s right to transfer to another telephone corporation.

(D) A toll-free customer service telephone number for the purpose of responding to customers’ questions.

(2) Any A transfer of customer services shall be effectuated without charge.

(b) Subdivision (a) does not apply when the telephone corporation has entered into a written contract with the customer and when the change in telephone corporation results in no rate increase for the customer.