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History
- Print number 4841a
- Amend (t) and recommit to energy and telecommunications
- Referred to energy and telecommunications
- Substituted by A2928
- Ordered to third reading cal.889
- Committee discharged and committed to rules
- Referred to energy and telecommunications
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Requires deferred installment payment plan be offered to small businesses for telephone service installation, initiation and nonrecurring maintenance charges
Assembly Floor Calendar · Sponsor David Koon
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Title of bill
An act to amend the public service law, in relation to deferred payment of certain charges to residential and small business customers
Purpose of bill
The primary purpose of this legislation is to amend the public service law to offer to small businesses a plan for deferred payment of charges stemming from the installation or initiation of service of a telephone line, or charges resulting from any nonrecurring maintenance service charge with respect to the telephone line or equipment.
The public service law currently requires this offer to be made with respect to residential telephone lines. This amendment would extend the offer of deferred payment to small businesses.
Summary of provisions
Section 1. Amends subdivision 4 of section 94 of the public service law to include small business telephone lines in addition to residential lines. Adds paragraph (b) to define a small business.
Section 2. Sets the effective date.
Justification
Subdivision 4 of section 94 of the Public Service Law currently requires that the Public Service Commission require telephone companies to offer a plan for the deferred payment of installation charges for residential telephone lines of up to one year. The result is that persons who otherwise could not afford to pay the installation charges may pay over the course of a year. This amendment would extend such a payment option to small businesses, thereby easing the burden of start-up and expansion costs with respect to telephone service, which is a necessity for many small businesses.
Article 4-B of the Economic Development Law, states in its legislative findings and objectives that small business has been a major positive factor in the political, economic and social development of the state; the future welfare of the state depends on the continued development of small business; and that the state has a responsibility to assist in small business development in furtherance of the general welfare.
This amendment comports with the legislature's firm dedication towards assisting and promoting small business. Easing telephone installation charges would lessen start-up burdens and expansion costs for new small businesses and would therefore serve to encourage and increase small business in New York.
Legislative history
2003-04: S.3334, Referred to Energy and Telecommunications. 2007-08: A.2928, Passed Assembly
Fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
Immediately.
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