SB 555 – Requires certain telephone companies to achieve parity between their in-state and out-of-state exchange access rates

• Sponsor: Lager
• LR Number: 1027S.04C
• Committee: Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment
• Last Action: 5/15/2009 - S Informal Calendar S Bills for Perfection--SB 555-Lager, with SCS, SS for SCS & SA 2 (pending)
• Title: SCS SB 555
• Effective Date: August 28, 2009

Current Bill Summary

SS/SCS/SB 555 - This act requires any incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) that is not a rate-of-return regulated ILEC to reduce its originating and terminating intrastate switched exchange access rates to the same amounts as its interstate switched exchange access rates by 20% increments over a 5-year period.

This act is similar to HB 898 (2009).

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