New York A 11505: Requires telephone corporations provide on their website information and materials pertaining to victims of domestic violence and opting-out of a bundle telephone contract

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A11505 Summary:

BILL NOA11505 

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SAME ASSAME AS S10294

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SPONSORRules (Solages)

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§2 & 91, Pub Serv L

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Requires telephone corporations to create a subsection on their websites with information and materials pertaining to victims of domestic violence and opting-out of a bundle telephone contract with such telephone corporation due to a person's status as a victim of domestic violence.

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BILL NOA11505 

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05/28/2026referred to corporations, authorities and commissions

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 11505

 IN ASSEMBLY

 May 28, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Solages) --
 read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities
 and Commissions

 AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring tele-
 phone corporations to create a subsection on their websites with
 information and materials pertaining to victims of domestic violence
 and opting-out of a bundle telephone contract with such telephone
 corporation due to a person's status as a victim of domestic violence

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 2 of the public service law is amended by adding
 2 three new subdivisions 18-a, 30, and 31 to read as follows:
 3 18-a. The term "shared telephone line", when used in this chapter,
 4 includes conduits, ducts, poles, wires, cables, cross-arms, receivers,
 5 transmitters, instruments, machines, appliances and all devices, real
 6 estate, easements, apparatus, property and routes used, operated or
 7 owned by any telephone corporation to facilitate the business of afford-
 8 ing communication up to and including the demarcation point located on a
 9 subscriber's premises in which the contract for said telephone line is
 10 shared amongst a group of individuals with one individual acting as the
 11 primary account holder and the ability to monitor or restrict the data,
 12 talk, and text usage of all lines under the contract.
 13 30. The terms "victim of domestic violence" and "survivor", when used
 14 in this chapter, shall mean any person as described in subdivision one
 15 of section four hundred fifty-nine-a of the social services law.
 16 31. The term "line separation", when used in this chapter, shall refer
 17 to the separation or removal of one or more individuals from a shared
 18 telephone line contract held with a telephone corporation.
 19 § 2. Subdivision 8 of section 91 of the public service law, as amended
 20 by chapter 42 of the laws of 2023, is amended to read as follows:
 21 8. Every telephone corporation, as defined in this chapter, shall
 22 allow a person who is under contract including, but not limited to, a
 23 multi-year contract or bundle contract with such telephone corporation,
 24 to opt-out of such contract without fee, penalty or charge when such

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD15689-02-6

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 1 person is a victim of domestic violence and provides [an attestation] a
 2 self-attestation in writing that they no longer wish to be a party to
 3 such contract due to their status as a victim of domestic violence. Such
 4 telephone corporation may not require such person to disclose confiden-
 5 tial information or details relating to such person's status as a victim
 6 of domestic violence, as a condition of permitting such person to opt-
 7 out of such contract. Such telephone corporation shall not require such
 8 person to submit any other documentation, information, or anything other
 9 than such a written self-attestation to certify that such person wishes
 10 to leave a contract with such telephone corporation due to their status
 11 as a victim of domestic violence. Further, such telephone corporation
 12 may not make release from such contract contingent on: (a) maintaining
 13 contractual or billing responsibility of a separated line with the
 14 provider; (b) approv