Bill Text: NY A06436 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-11-08 - signed chap.592 [A06436 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A06436-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6436

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 17, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

        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