Florida Senate - 2005                        SENATOR AMENDMENT
    Bill No. HB 1325, 2nd Eng.
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11  Senator Argenziano moved the following amendment:
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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
14         On page 15, between lines 397 and 398,
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17         Section 4.  (1)  Local service competition review.--The
18  Public Service Commission shall by September 30, 2005, study
19  and report on the impact that Federal Communications
20  Commission decisions and federal appellate court decisions
21  have had on the viability of basic local telecommunications
22  service competition in Florida subsequent to the issuance of
23  the commission's last report on the competition to the
24  Legislature. The study and report shall specifically examine
25  the recent publicly reported announcements that major
26  telecommunications companies would abandon efforts to compete
27  for basic local telecommunications services in this state and
28  report on the extent these abandonments will impair future
29  local service competition.
30         (2)  Pending completion of the local service
31  competition review, any local service rate increases
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    Florida Senate - 2005                        SENATOR AMENDMENT
    Bill No. HB 1325, 2nd Eng.
                        Barcode 905324
 1  previously approved by the commission, but not yet implemented
 2  shall be suspended until June 1, 2006, so that the Legislature
 3  can determine whether the local rates increases will in fact
 4  stimulate local service competition as was previously
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11  And the title is amended as follows:
12         On page 2, line 31, after the semicolon,
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15         requiring the Public Service Commission to
16         prepare a report on local telecommunications
17         service competition;
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