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1995 SESSION
HB 2290 Telephone companies; countywide local service areas.
Introduced by: William K. Barlow | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY:
Telephone companies; contiguous exchanges. Requires the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC), upon the resolution of a governing body of a county for a countywide local services area, to initiate a proceeding concerning an extension or reduction of a local telephone service area to include or exclude a contiguous local exchange or exchanges. Under current law, such a proceeding can be initiated only upon the petition of five percent, but in no case less then 25, of the subscribers in an established local telephone exchange. The SCC then orders the affected company or companies to poll those subscribers whose monthly rates for telephone service would change if the proposed changes were adopted. Under this bill, the SCC is required to determine, prior to estimating the approximate rate change, which exchanges within a county have a “community of interest calling percentage” (the percentage of customers in an exchange who make one or more calls per month to another exchange within the county) that is 50 percent or greater in at least one direction to at least one other exchange within the county. The bill also provides that whenever a county's governing body passes a resolution for a countywide local service area and the poll for such services is defeated, the governing body is required to reimburse the affected company or companies for the costs of the poll. Finally, the bill requires the SCC to give the highest priority to petitions or resolutions that involve local telephone exchanges in rural areas.
FULL TEXT
- 01/23/95 House: Presented & ordered printed LD7720126 pdf
- 02/04/95 House: Committee substitute printed LD1593126-H1 pdf
- 02/20/95 Senate: Committee substitute printed LD2110126-S1 pdf
- 03/06/95 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2290ER) pdf
- 03/23/95 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0466) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/23/95 House: Presented & ordered printed LD7720126
- 01/23/95 House: Referred to Committee on Corporations, Insurance and Banking
- 02/04/95 House: Reported from C. I. B. w/sub. (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/95 House: Committee substitute printed LD1593126-H1
- 02/05/95 House: Read first time
- 02/06/95 House: Read second time
- 02/06/95 House: Committee substitute agreed to LD1593126-H1
- 02/06/95 House: Engrossed by House - com. sub. LD1593126-H1
- 02/07/95 House: Read third time and passed House (Block Vote) (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/95 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/07/95 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/08/95 Senate: Read first time
- 02/08/95 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/20/95 Senate: Reported from C. & L. with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/95 Senate: Committee substitute printed LD2110126-S1
- 02/21/95 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/95 Senate: VOTE: CONST. READING DISPENSED (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/95 Senate: Read third time
- 02/22/95 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/22/95 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to LD2110126-S1
- 02/22/95 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - comm. sub. LD2110126-S1
- 02/22/95 Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/95 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/95 Senate: Rec. of Sen. passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/95 Senate: VOTE: RECONSIDER (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/95 Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/95 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/95 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/23/95 House: Senate substitute agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/95 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (96-Y 0-N)
- 03/06/95 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2290ER)
- 03/13/95 House: Enrolled
- 03/13/95 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/14/95 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/20/95 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 466 (effective 7/1/95)
- 03/23/95 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0466)