SB 1205: Telecommunications: universal service.
- Session Year: 2015-2016
- House: Senate
- Latest Version Date: 2016-02-18
Existing law, the Moore Universal Telephone Service Act, establishes the Universal Lifeline Telephone Service program to provide low-income households with access to affordable basic residential telephone service. The act makes legislative findings and declarations regarding lifeline telephone service.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those findings and declarations.
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(a)The offering of high-quality basic telephone service at affordable rates to the greatest number of citizens has been a longstanding goal of the state.
(b)The Moore Universal Telephone Service Act has been, and continues to be, an important means for achieving universal service by making basic telephone service affordable to low-income households through the creation of a lifeline class of service.
(c)Every means should be employed by the commission and telephone corporations to ensure that every household qualified to receive lifeline telephone service is informed of of, and is afforded the opportunity to to, subscribe to that service.
(d)The furnishing of lifeline telephone service is in the public interest and should be supported fairly and equitably by every telephone corporation, and the commission, in administering the lifeline telephone service program, should implement the program in a way that is equitable, nondiscriminatory, and without competitive consequences for the telecommunications industry in California this state.
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| Feb 18, 2016 | Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. |
| Feb 19, 2016 | From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20. |
| Mar 3, 2016 | Referred to Com. on RLS. |
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| California School Boards Association | * Support | Jun 28, 2018 |
Discussed in Hearing
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Assembly Standing Committee on Governmental Organization
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