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SENATE BILL NO. 547 Offered January 22, 1996 A BILL to amend and reenact § 56-241.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to certain types of telephone rates not to be approved. ---------- Patron-- Saslaw ---------- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and Labor ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 56-241.1 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 56-241.1. Certain types of telephone rates not to be approved.

The Commission shall not approve any mandatory tariff for local service of any telephone company permit any telephone company to modify its retail tariffs to remove from residential or business customers an existing option to subscribe to local exchange telephone service for calling within a local service area at a flat rate. No residential or business phone user shall be forced to accept local measured rate service based on the number of calls, length of call, distance or time of day, not in effect on January 1, 1979. Nothing contained herein shall prohibit the Commission from approving the voluntary tariff of any telephone company based on the number of calls, length of call, distance or time of day.