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- Signed chap.517
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to senate
- Passed assembly
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.395
- Substituted for A8578A
- Referred to ways and means
- Returned to assembly
- Repassed senate
- Amended on third reading 6138a
- Vote reconsidered - restored to third reading
- Returned to senate
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- Recalled from assembly
- Referred to corporations, authorities and commissions
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 57–3
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.186
- Referred to energy and telecommunications
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Relates to permitted changes in rate schedules for telephone companies
Assembly Floor Calendar · Sponsor James F. Brennan
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S6138A
Title of bill
An act to amend the public service law, in relation to changes in rate schedules for telephone companies
Purpose
To update requirements for proceedings before the Public Service Commission required for small businesses providing telephone service in New York State.
Summary of provisions
Section 1: increases the amount that a small telephone company can adjust its rates from $300,000 to $500,000 while maintaining their exemption from a formal proceeding before the Public service commission (PSC). Further the section reiterates the Authority of the Commission that already exists in statute to hold a hearing on such rate case if the PSC should deem it necessary.
Section 2: Sets forth the effective date
Justification
Small telephone providers struggle to provide service to customers across upstate New York, because of increasing costs and regulatory burdens. One such burden, involves the need for a full proceeding process before the Public Service Commission for even modest adjustments in rates. Such hearing can cost tens of thousands of dollars, which would otherwise be used to limit the need for a rate adjustment or be invested back into the company to enhance services. Small Telephone companies provide critical links to technology and information to customers in some of the most rural parts of our state, and ensure that those customers are never left without a means of communications in an emergency. These companies are also a source of good paying jobs in parts of the state that desperately need economic development. In 1998, the Legislature acted to increase the exemption from a Commission proceeding from $150,000 to $300,000. Fifteen years later, another adjustment is needed to continue to provide the same level of benefit to these small businesses, who are struggling, by keeping up with the rate of inflation and cost of doing business.
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This is a new bill.
Fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately.
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