BILL NUMBER: AB 1307	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bradford

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to amend Section 876 of the Public Utilities Code, relating
to public utilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1307, as introduced, Bradford. Public utilities.
   Existing law, the Moore Universal Telephone Service Act,
establishes the Universal Lifeline Telephone Service program to
provide low-income households with access to affordable basic
residential telephone service.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that
provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 876 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to
read:
   876.  The commission shall require  every   a
 telephone corporation providing telephone service within a
service area to file a schedule of rates and charges providing a
class of lifeline telephone service.  Every   A
 telephone corporation providing service within a service area
shall inform all eligible subscribers of the availability of lifeline
telephone service, and how they may qualify for and obtain service,
and shall accept applications for lifeline telephone service
according to procedures specified by the commission.