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1996 SESSION
SB 547 Telephone rates.
Introduced by: Richard L. Saslaw | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY:
Telephone rates. Requires every telephone company which offers dial tone line or substantially equivalent local service to offer to its residential and business customers at least one offering of such service consisting of a single dial tone line, including associated usage, for the purpose of two-way voice communications within a local calling area at a flat rate unless there was no telephone company offering such a class of service at a flat rate in the local calling area on January 1, 1979. The bill further directs that no residential or business customer may be required to accept local measured rate service for calling within a local calling area based on the number of calls, length of call, distance or time of day, not in effect on January 1, 1979.
FULL TEXT
- 01/22/96 Senate: Presented & ordered printed 961240729 pdf
- 02/12/96 Senate: Committee substitute printed 961065729-S1 pdf
- 03/08/96 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB547ER) pdf
- 04/04/96 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0378) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/22/96 Senate: Presented & ordered printed 961240729
- 01/22/96 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/12/96 Senate: Reported from C. & L. with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/96 Senate: Committee substitute printed 961065729-S1
- 02/13/96 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/96 Senate: VOTE: CONST. READING DISPENSED (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/96 Senate: Read second time
- 02/13/96 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/13/96 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 961065729-S1
- 02/13/96 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - comm. sub. 961065729-S1
- 02/13/96 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/96 Senate: VOTE: CONST. READING DISPENSED (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/96 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/96 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/96 Senate: Communicated to House
- 02/14/96 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/15/96 House: Read first time
- 02/15/96 House: Referred to Committee on Corporations, Insurance and Banking
- 02/22/96 House: Reported from Corp., Ins. & Banking (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/96 House: Read second time
- 02/26/96 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/27/96 House: Read third time
- 02/27/96 House: Passed House (Block Vote) (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/27/96 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N)
- 03/08/96 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB547ER)
- 03/15/96 Senate: Enrolled
- 03/16/96 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/18/96 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/31/96 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 378 (effective 7/1/96)
- 04/04/96 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0378)