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2009 SESSION
HB 1885 Telephone regulatory alternatives; determination of competitiveness.
Introduced by: Samuel A. Nixon, Jr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS ENACTED WITH GOVERNOR'S RECOMMENDATION: (all summaries)
Telephone regulatory alternatives; determination of competitiveness. Requires the State Corporation Commission, when determining whether the telephone services of a telephone company are competitive, to consider all wireless communications providers that offer voice communications services to be facilities-based competitors owning wireline network facilities and reasonably meeting the needs of consumers. In making its determination, the Commission shall not exclude as a competitor any affiliate of the telephone company. The measure also requires the Commission, if it determines that 75 percent or more of residential households or businesses in a telephone company’s incumbent territory are in areas that are competitive for a telephone service, to expand, for that telephone service throughout the company’s incumbent territory, its competitive determination. In such cases, the Commission is further required to apply the same regulatory treatment already adopted for that telephone service in competitive areas. The same regulatory treatment shall be applied if a telephone company provides 90 percent or more of its residential and business lines access to fiber-optic or copper-based broadband service within an exchange area.
FULL TEXT
- 01/12/09 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/09 090021656 pdf | impact statement
- 01/28/09 House: Printed as engrossed 090021656-E pdf | impact statement
- 02/24/09 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1885ER) pdf | impact statement
- 04/08/09 House: Reenrolled bill text (HB1885ER2) pdf
- 04/08/09 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0788) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/12/09 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/09 090021656
- 01/12/09 House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 01/22/09 House: Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendment (20-Y 1-N)
- 01/26/09 House: Read first time
- 01/27/09 House: Passed by for the day
- 01/28/09 House: Read second time
- 01/28/09 House: Committee amendment agreed to
- 01/28/09 House: Engrossed by House as amended HB1885E
- 01/28/09 House: Printed as engrossed 090021656-E
- 01/29/09 House: Read third time and passed House (86-Y 11-N 2-A)
- 01/29/09 House: VOTE: --- PASSAGE (86-Y 11-N 2-A)
- 01/30/09 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/30/09 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/16/09 Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor (13-Y 2-N)
- 02/18/09 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/09 Senate: Read third time
- 02/19/09 Senate: Passed Senate (36-Y 3-N)
- 02/24/09 House: Enrolled
- 02/24/09 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1885ER)
- 02/25/09 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/27/09 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/30/09 House: Governor's recommendation received by House
- 04/07/09 House: Placed on Calendar
- 04/08/09 House: House concurred in Governor's recommendation (86-Y 11-N 2-A)
- 04/08/09 House: VOTE: --- ADOPTION (86-Y 11-N 2-A)
- 04/08/09 Senate: Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (35-Y 5-N)
- 04/08/09 Governor: Governor's recommendation adopted
- 04/08/09 House: Reenrolled
- 04/08/09 House: Reenrolled bill text (HB1885ER2)
- 04/08/09 House: Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
- 04/08/09 Senate: Signed by President as reenrolled
- 04/08/09 House: Enacted, Chapter 788 (effective 7/1/09)
- 04/08/09 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0788)