Florida Senate - 2007 SENATOR AMENDMENT
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11 Senator Crist moved the following amendment:
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13 Senate Amendment
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17 and insert: access services. The switched network access
18 service rates of the local exchange telecommunications
19 companies whose network access service rates were affected by
20 Orders Nos. PSC 03-1469-FOF-TL and PSC 04-0456-FOF-TL shall be
21 reduced and capped as provided in s. 364.385(4). An intrastate
22 interexchange telecommunications company may not institute any
23 intrastate connection fee or any similarly named fee.
24 (1) After a local exchange telecommunications
25 company's intrastate switched network access rates are reduced
26 to or below parity, as defined in s. 364.164(5), the company's
27 intrastate switched network access rates shall be, and shall
28 remain, capped for 3 years.
29 (2) Any intrastate interexchange telecommunications
30 company whose intrastate switched network access rate is
31 reduced as a result of the rate adjustments made by a local
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1 exchange telecommunications company in accordance with s.
2 364.164 shall decrease its intrastate long distance revenues
3 by the amount necessary to return the benefits of such
4 reduction to both its residential and business customers. The
5 intrastate interexchange telecommunications company may
6 determine the specific intrastate rates to be decreased,
7 provided that residential and business customers benefit from
8 the rate decreases. Any in-state connection fee or similarly
9 named fee shall be eliminated by July 1, 2006, provided that
10 the timetable determined pursuant to s. 364.164(1) reduces
11 intrastate switched network access rates in an amount that
12 results in the elimination of such fee in a revenue-neutral
13 manner. The tariff changes, if any, made by the intrastate
14 interexchange telecommunications company to carry out the
15 requirements of this subsection shall be presumed valid and
16 shall become effective on 1 day's notice.
17 (3) The commission shall have continuing regulatory
18 oversight of intrastate switched network access and customer
19 long distance rates for purposes of determining the
20 correctness of any rate decrease by a telecommunications
21 company resulting from the application of s. 364.164 and
22 making any necessary adjustments to those rates.
23 Section 12. Subsection (4) is added to section
24 364.385, Florida Statutes, to read:
25 364.385 Saving clauses.--
26 (4) The reductions in the rates and charges for
27 network access service approved by the commission in
28 accordance with the decisions set forth in Orders Nos. PSC
29 03-1469-FOF-TL and PSC 04-0456-FOF-TL shall be fully
30 implemented and thereafter shall remain in effect and capped
31 for 3 years. The commission has continuing regulatory
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1 oversight to ensure that the network-switched access charge
2 reductions are implemented. The associated flow-throughs by
3 intrastate interexchange telecommunications companies shall be
4 implemented pursuant to those orders. The commission has
5 continuing regulatory oversight to determine the correctness
6 of the flow-through rate decreases made by interexchange
7 telecommunications companies, making adjustments to those
8 rates as necessary. The rates and charges for basic local
9 exchange telecommunications service of the local exchange
10 telecommunications companies whose network access service
11 rates were affected by Orders Nos. PSC 03-1469-FOF-TL and PSC
12 04-0456-FOF-TL which are in effect immediately prior to July
13 1, 2007, shall remain in effect and such rates and charges may
14 not be changed after the effective date of this act except in
15 accordance with the provisions of s. 364.051.
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