Bill Text: NY S05782 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relates to commercial mobile radio and cellular telephone service providers; permits the commission of public service to designate any commercial mobile radio service provider as an eligible telecommunications carrier for purposes of providing lifeline service.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-12-06 - SIGNED CHAP.606 [S05782 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S05782-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relates to commercial mobile radio and cellular telephone service providers; permits the commission of public service to designate any commercial mobile radio service provider as an eligible telecommunications carrier for purposes of providing lifeline service.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-12-06 - SIGNED CHAP.606 [S05782 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S05782-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5782 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 14, 2019 ___________ 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 commercial mobile radio service providers The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 5 of the public service law is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph c to read as follows: 3 c. Notwithstanding paragraph a of this subdivision, the commission may 4 designate any commercial mobile radio service providers as an eligible 5 telecommunications carrier for purposes of providing lifeline service, 6 in addition to any commercial mobile radio service providers designated 7 as such pursuant to 47 U.S.C. § 214(e). The commissioner is authorized 8 to promulgate all rules and regulations necessary to implement the 9 provisions of this paragraph. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11763-01-9