House Bill 9541

    Florida House of Representatives - 1998                HR 9541

        By Representative Safley






  1                         House Resolution

  2         A resolution accepting, acknowledging, and

  3         approving the findings of the Florida Public

  4         Service Commission's 1997 Report on the Status

  5         of Competition.

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  7         WHEREAS, the State of Florida has enumerated its public

  8  policy that the competitive provision of telecommunications

  9  services, including local exchange telecommunications

10  services, is in the public interest and will provide consumers

11  with freedom of choice, encourage the introduction of

12  telecommunications services, encourage technological

13  innovation, and encourage investment in telecommuncations

14  infrastruction, and

15         WHEREAS, during the transition to full competition, the

16  Legislature froze basic local telecommunications rates

17  pursuant to s. 364.051(2), Florida Statutes, and

18         WHEREAS, the Legislature directed the Florida Public

19  Service Commission, by December 1997, to investigate and

20  report on an exchange-by-exchange basis whether there is a

21  need to extend the price freeze enumerated in s. 364.051(2),

22  Florida Statutes, and

23         WHEREAS, the Florida Public Service Commission's

24  December 1997 report to the Legislature recommended extending

25  current price freezes for all price-regulated companies due to

26  the lack of local competition, NOW, THEREFORE,

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28  Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of

29  Florida:

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    Florida House of Representatives - 1998                HR 9541

    114-277A-98






  1         That the House of Representatives of the State of

  2  Florida does hereby accept, acknowledge, and approve the

  3  findings of the Florida Public Service Commission's December

  4  1997 Report on the Status of Competition and concludes that

  5  adequate and meaningful competition does not exist in

  6  telecommunications exchange areas in this state and therefore

  7  the existing price caps in such areas shall remain in effect

  8  until such time that the Legislature determines conditions

  9  exist to the contrary.

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