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2014 SESSION
SB 584 Competitive telephone companies; regulation of local exchange companies, duties.
Introduced by: Richard L. Saslaw | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles | history
SUMMARY AS PASSED:
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. This bill is identical to HB 774.
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE:
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.
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
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 and the Utility Transfer 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 will continue not to have power to regulate contracts between telephone companies and the Commonwealth and its agencies.