| 1 | A bill to be entitled |
| 2 | An act relating to telecommunication rates; repealing ss. |
| 3 | 364.059, 364.164, and 364.051(6), (7), and (8), F.S., |
| 4 | relating to price regulation and competitive market |
| 5 | enhancements of local exchange telecommunication |
| 6 | companies; providing that any local telecommunications |
| 7 | service rate that was increased and any corresponding |
| 8 | telecommunications intrastate access fee that was reduced |
| 9 | by action of the Florida Public Service Commission but |
| 10 | that has not yet been implemented is null and void; |
| 11 | providing that if a local telecommunications service rate |
| 12 | was increased and a corresponding telecommunications |
| 13 | intrastate access fee was reduced, those rates and fees |
| 14 | are suspended as of a specified date, and thereafter a |
| 15 | local exchange telecommunications company must charge |
| 16 | local service rates and intrastate access fees at the |
| 17 | rates in effect on December 1, 2003; providing an |
| 18 | effective date. |
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| 20 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 22 | Section 1. Sections 364.059 and 364.164, and subsections |
| 23 | (6), (7), and (8) of s. 364.051, Florida Statutes, are repealed. |
| 24 | Section 2. (1) Any local service rate that was increased |
| 25 | and any corresponding intrastate access fee that was reduced by |
| 26 | action of the Florida Public Service Commission under former s. |
| 27 | 364.164, Florida Statutes, but that has not yet been implemented |
| 28 | because the rate increase has been stayed pending appellate |
| 29 | review, is null and void as if never granted by the commission. |
| 30 | (2) Any local service rate that was increased and any |
| 31 | corresponding intrastate access fee that was reduced by action |
| 32 | of the commission under former s. 364.164, Florida Statutes, and |
| 33 | that has been implemented after appellate review, is suspended |
| 34 | as of the effective date of this act. Thereafter, a local |
| 35 | exchange telecommunications company must charge local service |
| 36 | rates and intrastate access fees at the rate in effect on |
| 37 | December 1, 2003. |
| 38 | Section 3. This act shall take effect May 15, 2006, or |
| 39 | upon becoming a law, whichever occurs later. |