Virginia House Bill 774 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Passed on March 27 2014 - 100% progression
Action: 2014-03-27 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0340)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Regulation of competitive telephone companies. Establishes a procedure by which certain telephone companies may elect to be regulated as competitive telephone companies. A competitive telephone company will be exempt from the Securities Act. The SCC shall continue to have jurisdiction over wholesale telephone services and issues, including the payment of switched network access rates or other intercarrier compensation, interconnection, porting, and numbering. A competitive telephone company in its incumbent territory will continue to be obligated to extend or expand its facilities to furnish retail voice service and facilities when the person, firm, or corporation does not have service available from one or more alternative providers of wireline or terrestrial wireless communications services at prevailing market rates. A competitive telephone company shall have the obligation to provide access to emergency 911 service to its end-user retail customers. The SCC shall continue to enforce the Transfers Act regarding competitive telephone companies. The SCC will continue not to have power to regulate contracts between telephone companies and the Commonwealth and its agencies. Orders issued by the SCC pursuant to any authority that it previously had, but which authority ceases to exist upon the effective date of this measure, shall have no effect on a competitive telephone company; however, orders issued pursuant to authority granted, continued, or otherwise preserved under this measure shall continue in effect.

Competitive telephone companies; regulation of local exchange companies, duties.

Del. Kathy Byron [R]

Del. Timothy Hugo [R]

2014-02-27 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-02-26 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-02-24 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor (16-Y 0-N) (Y: 16 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-01-27 - House - House: VOTE: PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N 2-A) (Y: 100 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2014-01-21 - House - House: Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (19-Y 0-N) (Y: 20 N: 0 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-03-27		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0340)
2014-03-27		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 340 (effective 7/1/14)
2014-03-07	Senate	Signed by President
2014-03-04	House	Signed by Speaker
2014-03-04	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB774ER)
2014-03-04	House	Enrolled
2014-02-27	Senate	Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2014-02-27	Senate	Read third time
2014-02-26	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
2014-02-24	Senate	Reported from Commerce and Labor (16-Y 0-N)
2014-01-28	Senate	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2014-01-28	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2014-01-27	House	VOTE: PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N 2-A)
2014-01-27	House	Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N 2-A)
2014-01-24	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB774H1
2014-01-24	House	Committee substitute agreed to 14104040D-H1
2014-01-24	House	Read second time
2014-01-23	House	Read first time
2014-01-21	House	Committee substitute printed 14104040D-H1
2014-01-21	House	Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (19-Y 0-N)
2014-01-07	House	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2014-01-07	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/14 14103178D

SB584 (Same As) 2014-03-27 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0376)

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+sum+HB774
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+HB774+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+HB774H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+HB774ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+CHAP0340+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+H14V0029+HB0774
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+HV0245+HB0774
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+S02V0084+HB0774
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+SV0585HB0774+HB0774
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+SV0636HB0774+HB0774