S885-2013 Actions

• Jan 9, 2013: REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

S885-2013 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S885

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend
the public service law, in relation to requiring telecommunication
service providers to provide notice relating to service outages

PURPOSE:
Requires telecommunication service providers to provide information
regarding service outages to the Public Service Commission and to
customers. This information is to include the number of customers
affected by geographic area and expected timetable of return of
service.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1: Amends the Public Service Law by creating a new section 92-g
which would direct the Public Service Commission to adopt regulations
to require that telecommunication service providers provide
information regarding service outages that affect five out of one
hundred service lines for at least twenty-four hours to the Public
Service Commission and to customers. This information is to include
the number of customers affected by geographic area and expected
timetable of return of service.

Section 2: Effective date.

JUSTIFICATION:
When a commercial or residential customer is subject to an outage of
telecommunication service for an extended period of time it can
severely impact them. They should be able to access information about
the extent of the outage and an expected timetable of return of
service.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
S.6346 of 2012: Died in Senate Energy and Telecommunications

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: None.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have
become a law; provided, however, that the public service commission
is immediately authorized and directed to take any and all actions,
including but not limited to the promulgation of any rules, necessary
to fully implement the provisions of this act on its effective date.

S885-2013 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 
                                          885
 2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 I N  SENATE
 (PREFILED)
 January 9, 2013
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. BONACIC -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni
 cations
 AN  ACT  to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring tele
 communication service providers to provide notice relating to  service
 outages
 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section 1.  The public service law is amended by adding a new  section
 92-g to read as follows:

 

S  92-G.  NOTICE  OF SERVICE OUTAGE. 1. THE COMMISSION SHALL, BY REGU
 LATIONS ADOPTED OR AMENDED PURSUANT TO THIS  SECTION,  ESTABLISH  NOTICE
 REQUIREMENTS  THAT SHALL APPLY TO ALL TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE PROVID
 ERS, RELATING TO SERVICE OUTAGES THAT  LAST  FOR  TWENTY-FOUR  HOURS  OR
 LONGER  AND  WHICH AFFECT FIVE CUSTOMERS PER ONE HUNDRED ACCESS LINES OR
 MORE. FOR THE PURPOSES  OF  THIS  SECTION,  "TELECOMMUNICATIONS  SERVICE
 PROVIDER"  OR  "PROVIDER  OF  TELECOMMUNICATIONS  SERVICES" SHALL MEAN A
 TELEPHONE CORPORATION CERTIFIED IN  THE  STATE  WITH  THE  AUTHORITY  TO
 PROVIDE  INTRASTATE TOLL AND LOCAL EXCHANGE SERVICE USING EITHER ITS OWN
 OR LEASED FACILITIES. THE  COMMISSION  SHALL  INCLUDE  WITH  THE  NOTICE
 REQUIREMENTS,  METHODOLOGIES FOR MONITORING COMPLIANCE WITH AND ENFORCE
 MENT OF SUCH STANDARDS.
 2. THE TERMS USED IN THIS SECTION  EXCEPT  WHERE  EXPRESSLY  INDICATED
 OTHERWISE  SHALL  MEAN  AND  BE DEFINED AS SET FORTH IN 16 NEW YORK CODE
 RULES AND REGULATIONS SECTION 603.3.
 3. EVERY PROVIDER OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES SHALL PROVIDE  NOTICE
 TO  THE COMMISSIONER AS SOON AS PRACTICABLE BUT IN NO EVENT LATER THAN A
 TIME CERTAIN TO BE DETERMINED BY THE COMMISSION, WHICH SHALL INCLUDE, AT
 A MINIMUM:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03213-01-3
 
       S. 885                              2
 (A) THE APPROXIMATE NUMBER OF OUT-OF-SERVICE CUSTOMERS BY  CITY,  TOWN
 OR OTHER LOCALIZED GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION DETERMINED BY THE COMMISSION; AND
 (B) AN ESTIMATE OF THE DURATION OF SUCH OUTAGE.
 4.  EVERY PROVIDER OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES SHALL, TO THE EXTENT
 PRACTICABLE, MAKE INFORMATION RELATING TO  ESTIMATED  DURATION  OF  SUCH
 OUTAGE  AVAILABLE  TO  CUSTOMERS  THROUGH  THE PROVIDER'S WEBSITE, LOCAL
 MEDIA OR ANY OTHER MEDIUM DETERMINED BY THE COMMISSION.
 

S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law; provided, however, that the public service commission
 is  immediately  authorized  and  directed  to take any and all actions,
 including but not limited to the promulgation of any rules, necessary to
 fully implement the provisions of this act on its effective date.

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