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NY A09832
Bill
Status
4/11/2024
Primary Sponsor
Kenneth Zebrowski
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AI Summary
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Authorizes New York towns (except those wholly contained within cities) to impose a surcharge of up to 35 cents per access line per month on telephone service customers to fund Enhanced 911 (E911) emergency telephone systems.
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Service suppliers (telephone corporations and VOIP providers) must act as collection agents, remitting collected funds to the town within 30 days and retaining a 2 percent administrative fee.
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Exempts lifeline customers, public safety agencies, and municipalities that enact the surcharge from paying the charge.
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Limits the surcharge to no more than 75 exchange access lines per customer per location and requires uniform application throughout the municipality.
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Requires towns to separately account for E911 revenues and reduce the surcharge if the reserved fund balance exceeds 5 percent of annual system costs; establishes 24-hour operation requirement for at least one public service answering point.
Legislative Description
Authorizes towns to adopt, amend or repeal local laws to impose a surcharge per telephone line per month on the customers of every service supplier within such town to pay for the costs associated with obtaining, operating and maintaining an enhanced 911 emergency telephone system to serve such town.
Last Action
enacting clause stricken
7/15/2024