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SENATE BILL NO. 1522

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S1522......................................................by STATE AFFAIRS
TELEPHONE CORPORATIONS - Adds to existing law to provide for the direct
recovery of fees paid by telephone corporations through surcharges passed
on to customers.
                                                                        
02/22    Senate intro - 1st rdg - to printing
02/23    Rpt prt - to St Aff

Bill Text

 S1522
                                                                        
                                                                        
  ||||              LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO             ||||
 Fifty-fifth Legislature                  Second Regular Session - 2000
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                       IN THE SENATE
                                                                        
                                    SENATE BILL NO. 1522
                                                                        
                                 BY STATE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
                                                                        
  1                                        AN ACT
  2    RELATING TO PUBLIC UTILITY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS FEES; AMENDING  CHAPTER  10,
  3        TITLE  61,  IDAHO  CODE,  BY  THE ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION 61-1010, IDAHO
  4        CODE, TO PROVIDE FOR THE DIRECT RECOVERY OF FEES PAID BY TELEPHONE  CORPO-
  5        RATIONS THROUGH SURCHARGES PASSED ON TO CUSTOMERS.
                                                                        
  6    Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:
                                                                        
  7        SECTION  1.  That  Chapter  10,  Title 61, Idaho Code, be, and the same is
  8    hereby amended by the addition thereto of a NEW SECTION, to be known and  des-
  9    ignated as Section 61-1010, Idaho Code, and to read as follows:
                                                                        
 10        61-1010.  RECOVERY  OF  FEES PAID BY TELEPHONE CORPORATIONS. Any telephone
 11    corporation providing basic local exchange service within the state  of  Idaho
 12    and  any telephone corporation providing intrastate message telecommunications
 13    service within the state of Idaho, including those otherwise exempt  from  the
 14    jurisdiction of the commission pursuant to section 61-104, Idaho Code, and any
 15    telephone  corporation providing local exchange services or message telecommu-
 16    nications services pursuant to the telecommunications act of 1988, chapter  6,
 17    title  62, Idaho Code, shall be authorized to pass on to its customers, in the
 18    form of a surcharge or surcharges on customer rates, the full amount  it  pays
 19    in  all  fees  payable to, collected or recovered by, or in any way associated
 20    with the commission or its authority under any law of this state.

Statement of Purpose / Fiscal Impact

              STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
                 RS 09977C1

The purpose of this bill is to allow telephone 
corporations to pass the charges paid to or 
collected by the Idaho Public Utilities Commission 
through to their customers. Currently, charges for 
the Idaho telecommunications service assistance 
program and the Universal Service Fund are separately 
identified and charged on customers' bills. The 
charges to fund the Public Utilities Commission 
and telephone relay service, are not separately 
identified, but are included in the customers' rates. 
This bill would allow all such fees and charges to 
be separately identified on the customer's bill. 

                    FISCAL IMPACT

There is no fiscal impact. 

Contact: Clancy Standridge or Schelly Jensen
(208) 338-0772 
(208) 338-1826 (fax) 

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL IMPACT      S 1522