New York S 1060: Relates to the removal of a special district officer by recall

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S01060 Summary:

BILL NOS01060 

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SAME ASSAME AS A11523

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SPONSORSERRANO

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §92-f, Pub Serv L

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Limits certain charging practices by companies that provide prepaid telephone calling cards and increases fines for violations of limitation requirements.

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BILL NOS01060 

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

01/08/2025REFERENCE CHANGED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

05/19/20251ST REPORT CAL.1136

05/20/20252ND REPORT CAL.

05/21/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/06/2025PASSED SENATE

06/06/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

06/06/2025referred to corporations, authorities and commissions

01/07/2026died in assembly

01/07/2026returned to senate

01/07/2026REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1060

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
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 Introduced by Sen. SERRANO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation

 AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to limiting certain
 charging practices by companies that provide prepaid telephone calling
 cards and increasing fines for violations of limitation requirements

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

 1 Section 1. Section 92-f of the public service law is amended by adding
 2 a new subdivision 4-a to read as follows:
 3 4-a. No company that provides prepaid calling services through prepaid
 4 calling cards shall:
 5 a. calculate usage charges by rounding up beyond the next minute for
 6 telephone phone calls;
 7 b. charge minutes for unconnected telephone phone calls, including
 8 calls that are dropped or to which there is no answer or a busy signal;
 9 c. publicize or display advertisements stating that there is no
 10 connection fee associated with a plan or calling card if there is a
 11 disconnection fee associated with the plan or calling card.
 12 § 2. Subdivision 8 of section 92-f of the public service law, as
 13 added by chapter 651 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as follows:
 14 8. Enforcement. The commission shall have the power, consistent with
 15 federal law, to assess a penalty not to exceed [one] five thousand
 16 dollars against any company that provides prepaid calling cards or
 17 services that knowingly fails or neglects to comply with any provision
 18 of this section or any regulation or order of the commission implement-
 19 ing or enforcing the provisions of this section for a first violation
 20 and ten thousand dollars for a second or subsequent violation. All
 21 moneys recovered from any administrative penalty shall be paid into the
 22 state treasury to the credit of the general fund.
 23 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day
 24 after it shall have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01647-01-5

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