STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6199 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY April 3, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring covered entities to publicly report on franchise fees, consumer complaints and denials of requests for service The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a new section 2 28 to read as follows: 3 § 28. Publication of reports. 1. Within ninety days of the effective 4 date of this section, the department shall direct all covered entities, 5 to report publicly on its website or websites all franchise fees paid to 6 the municipality or municipalities served, all consumer complaints, and 7 any denials of requests for service from residents of such munici- 8 palities during the term of the current franchise. Covered entities 9 shall report such information without unreasonably exposing consumers' 10 personally identifiable information in a manner that violates public 11 service law, department practice, or federal law. Such reports shall be 12 updated quarterly. 13 2. For the purposes of this section, a covered entity shall include 14 any broadband, telephone and cable service company: 15 (a) with annual gross revenues of at least two hundred fifty thousand 16 dollars; or 17 (b) which serves any municipality as an overbuilder and provides 18 competitive services to an incumbent cable company, except in munici- 19 palities with a population of one million or more. For the purposes of 20 this section, an "overbuilder" shall mean any cable provider that 21 constructs new wireline facilities to end-users in the traditional 22 service territory of a legacy telephone or cable incumbent. 23 3. Upon a written request for an investigation into the covered enti- 24 ty's compliance with its franchise terms and applicable state and feder- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09907-03-3A. 6199 2 1 al law, signed by (a) twenty-five or more customers, or (b) the chief 2 executive officer of the municipality, or (c) the county legislature of 3 the county within which the system is located, the department shall 4 conduct an investigation into such allegations contained in a complaint 5 letter. 6 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.