2025 bills / S.B. 269
S.B. 269 Telecommunications Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill changes the rules on how incumbent telephone companies can set prices and which companies qualify for the state's universal telecommunications support fund. It lets certain requirements that telephone companies act as providers of last resort expire after July 1, 2025, and requires them to keep providing basic residential phone service to existing locations under certain conditions.
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Official description
- modifies provisions related to pricing flexibility for incumbent telephone corporations
- provides for the expiration of certain carrier of last resort obligations after July 1, 2025
- modifies provisions regarding Universal Public Telecommunications Service Support Fund eligibility
- requires continued basic residential service to existing locations under certain conditions
- makes technical and conforming changes
Your legislators on this bill
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What members get
- An alert the day S.B. 269 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When S.B. 269 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 6 yes, 0 no, 2 absentSenate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 18, 2025Who voted how
- 21 yes, 6 no, 2 absentFirst of two Senate votes · Feb 21, 2025Who voted how
- 21 yes, 2 no, 6 absentFinal Senate vote · Feb 24, 2025Who voted how
- 8 yes, 0 no, 5 absentHouse Public Utilities and Energy Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 28, 2025Who voted how
- 8 yes, 0 no, 5 absentHouse Public Utilities and Energy Committee: Consent Calendar Recommendation · Feb 28, 2025Who voted how
- 68 yes, 0 no, 7 absentFinal House vote · Mar 3, 2025Who voted how