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2011 SESSION
HB 2367 Telecommunications services; eliminates certain requirements.
Introduced by: Timothy D. Hugo | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Telecommunications services; regulation. Eliminates certain requirements applicable to competitive telecommunications services. The requirement that competitive services be offered for sale under a filed tariff is eliminated. The State Corporation Commission shall permit, but may not mandate, the detariffing of any or all terms, conditions, or rates for retail telephone service not found prior to January 1, 2011, to be a basic local exchange telephone service. After July 1, 2013, the Commission shall permit, but may not mandate, the detariffing of any or all terms, conditions, or rates for any or all retail telephone services. In addition, the measure (i) eliminates the facility-building requirement of telephone companies in instances where a person has service available from one or more alternative providers of wireline or terrestrial wireless communications service at prevailing market rates; (ii) permits an incumbent provider to meet its obligation to furnish reasonably adequate service and facilities through the use of any and all wireline or terrestrial wireless technology, subject to a requirement that when a telephone company restores service to an existing wireline customer, the company shall offer the option to furnish service using wireline facilities; (iii) provides that the Commission may conclude that competition can effectively ensure reasonably adequate retail services in competitive exchanges and may carry out its duty to ensure that a public utility is furnishing reasonably adequate retail service in its competitive exchanges by monitoring individual customer complaints and requiring appropriate responses to such complaints; (iv) amends the requirement of prior approval for the sale of all of the assets of a telephone company to provide that the Commission in such a proceeding shall consider only the financial, managerial, and technical resources to render local exchange telecommunications services of the person acquiring ownership or control; (v) eliminates requirements associated with telegraph service that is no longer offered in the Commonwealth; (vi) expands the definition of mail used for providing notice to customers to include electronic mail; (vii) provides that the prohibition on multiple rate increases within a 12-month period does not apply to competitive services; (viii) exempts telephone companies from provisions relating to energy and capital resource use conservation, standard units of products or service, and fuel purchases; (ix) eliminates provisions relating to the authority of the Commission to establish areas where a telephone company may provide mobile telephone service; (x) deletes obsolete provisions applicable to the extension of telephone facilities into rural areas and to the rates of telephone companies set by municipal ordinances; (xi) allows the detariffing of interexchange service; and (xii) provides that requirements that telephone companies file reports, other than reports relating to the special revenue tax, will expire on December 31 of each year unless the Commission extends the requirement after notice and an opportunity for a hearing. SB 1368 is identical.
FULL TEXT
- 01/12/11 House: Presented and ordered printed 11103406D pdf | impact statement
- 02/03/11 House: Committee substitute printed 11104402D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/07/11 House: Printed as engrossed 11104402D-EH1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/25/11 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2367ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/28/11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0738) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/12/11 House: Presented and ordered printed 11103406D
- 01/12/11 House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 01/19/11 House: Assigned C & L sub: #2
- 01/20/11 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/11 House: Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (20-Y 1-N)
- 02/03/11 House: Committee substitute printed 11104402D-H1
- 02/06/11 House: Read first time
- 02/07/11 House: Read second time
- 02/07/11 House: Committee substitute agreed to 11104402D-H1
- 02/07/11 House: Amendment by Delegate Hugo agreed to
- 02/07/11 House: Amendments by Delegate Armstrong rejected
- 02/07/11 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute with amendment HB2367EH1
- 02/07/11 House: Printed as engrossed 11104402D-EH1
- 02/08/11 House: Read third time and passed House (69-Y 28-N 2-A)
- 02/08/11 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (69-Y 28-N 2-A)
- 02/09/11 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/09/11 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/14/11 Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor (11-Y 4-N)
- 02/16/11 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/11 Senate: Read third time
- 02/17/11 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/18/11 Senate: Read third time
- 02/18/11 Senate: Passed Senate (26-Y 14-N)
- 02/25/11 House: Enrolled
- 02/25/11 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2367ER)
- 02/25/11 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/25/11 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/28/11 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 738 (effective 7/1/11)
- 03/28/11 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0738)