BILL NUMBER: SB 1375	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Price

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to amend Section 2883 of the Public Utilities Code,
relating to telecommunications.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1375, as introduced, Price. Telephone corporations: residential
telephone service: 911 calls.
   Existing law requires all local telephone corporations, excluding
providers of mobile telephony service and mobile satellite telephone
service, to the extent permitted by existing technology or
facilities, to provide every existing and newly installed residential
telephone connection with access to "911" emergency service
regardless of whether an account has been established.
   This bill would instead require local telephone corporations to
provide a connection that has the capacity to place a "911" call
rather than providing access to "911" emergency service.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 2883 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to
read:
   2883.  (a) All local telephone corporations, excluding providers
of mobile telephony service and mobile satellite telephone service,
as defined in Section 224.4,  shall,  to the extent
permitted by existing technology or facilities,  shall 
provide every existing and newly installed residential telephone
connection with  access to "911" emergency service 
 a co   nnection that has the capacity to place a "911"
call  regardless of whether an account has been established.
   (b) The commission shall prohibit any corporation from terminating
 access to the services   a connection 
described in subdivision (a) for nonpayment of any delinquent account
or indebtedness owed by the subscriber to the telephone corporation.
A subscriber and a telephone corporation may arrange payment
schedules to regain full service.
   (c) The commission shall require telephone corporations to inform
subscribers of the availability of the services described in
subdivision (a) in a manner determined by the commission.
   (d) This section shall not be construed to relieve any person of
an obligation to pay a debt owed to a telephone corporation.
   (e)  Nothing in this   This  section
 not  shall require a local telephone corporation to provide
 "911" access pursuant to this section  
connections that have the capacity to place "911" calls  if
doing so would preclude providing service to subscribers of
residential telephone service.