Competitive telephone companies; regulation of local exchange companies, duties. (SB584)
Introduced By
Sen. Dick Saslaw (D-Springfield) with support from 14 copatrons, whose average partisan position is:
Those copatrons are Sen. Chuck Colgan (D-Manassas), Sen. Adam Ebbin (D-Alexandria), Sen. Barbara Favola (D-Arlington), Sen. Janet Howell (D-Reston), Sen. Dave Marsden (D-Burke), Sen. Don McEachin (D-Richmond), Sen. Tommy Norment (R-Williamsburg), Sen. Ralph Northam (D-Norfolk), Sen. Phil Puckett (D-Tazewell), Sen. Frank Ruff (R-Clarksville), Sen. Richard Stuart (R-Westmoreland), Sen. Jill Holtzman Vogel (R-Winchester), Sen. Frank Wagner (R-Virginia Beach), Sen. John Watkins (R-Midlothian)
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Passed Committee |
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Passed House |
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Passed Senate |
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Signed by Governor |
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Description
Regulation of competitive telephone companies. Establishes a procedure by which certain telephone companies may elect to be regulated as competitive telephone companies. A competitive telephone company will be exempt from the Securities Act and the Utility Transfer Act. The SCC shall continue to have jurisdiction over wholesale telephone services and issues, including the payment of switched network access rates or other intercarrier compensation, interconnection, porting, and numbering. A competitive telephone company in its incumbent territory will continue to be obligated to extend or expand its facilities to furnish retail voice service and facilities when the person, firm, or corporation does not have service available from one or more alternative providers of wireline or terrestrial wireless communications services at prevailing market rates. A competitive telephone company shall have the obligation to provide access to emergency 911 service to its end-user retail customers. The SCC will continue not to have power to regulate contracts between telephone companies and the Commonwealth and its agencies. Read the Bill »
Outcome
History
Date | Action |
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01/10/2014 | Presented and ordered printed 14103197D |
01/10/2014 | Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor |
01/16/2014 | Impact statement from SCC (SB584) |
01/20/2014 | Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
01/20/2014 | Committee substitute printed 14104030D-S1 |
01/22/2014 | Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) |
01/23/2014 | Read second time |
01/23/2014 | Reading of substitute waived |
01/23/2014 | Committee substitute agreed to 14104030D-S1 |
01/23/2014 | Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB584S1 |
01/23/2014 | Impact statement from SCC (SB584) |
01/24/2014 | Impact statement from SCC (SB584S1) |
01/24/2014 | Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 0-N) |
01/31/2014 | Placed on Calendar |
01/31/2014 | Read first time |
01/31/2014 | Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor |
02/25/2014 | Reported from Commerce and Labor (21-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
02/27/2014 | Read second time |
02/28/2014 | Read third time |
02/28/2014 | Passed House (96-Y 0-N 1-A) |
02/28/2014 | VOTE: PASSAGE (96-Y 0-N 1-A) (see vote tally) |
03/05/2014 | Enrolled |
03/05/2014 | Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB584ER) |
03/05/2014 | Signed by Speaker |
03/06/2014 | Impact statement from SCC (SB584ER) |
03/08/2014 | Signed by President |
03/27/2014 | G Approved by Governor-Chapter 376 (effective 7/1/14) |
03/27/2014 | G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0376) |