File Code: Utility Regulation
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 643  
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
Delegates Kramer, Conaway, Ivey, McConkey, Montgomery, Ramirez, Shank,
Simmons, Smigiel, Hecht, Manno, Mathias, and Taylor
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Telephone Bills - Third-Party Vendor Billing
 
Prohibiting a third-party vendor or billing agent from submitting
charges to a specified telephone company or reseller for third-party
vendor billing without express authorization from an ordering
customer; requiring the authorization to be separate from other
documents and to include specified information; requiring a third-
party vendor or billing agent to retain a specified copy of the
express authorization for 2 years after authorization; etc.
Legislative date is used to record
history occurring in the Chambers
otherwise Calendar date is used.
House Action
- 2/10
 - First Reading Economic Matters
 - 2/24
 - Hearing 3/11 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 3/27
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic Matters
 - 3/24
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 3/25
 - Third Reading Passed (139-0)
 - 3/31
 - Returned Passed
 
Senate Action
- 3/27
 - First Reading Finance
 - 3/30
 - Hearing 4/1 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 4/5
 - Favorable Report by Finance
 - 4/1
 - Favorable Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed
 - 4/2
 - Third Reading Passed (47-0)
 
Action after passage in House  and Senate
- 4/13
 - Approved by the Governor
 -      - Chapter 90
 
Sponsored by:
- Delegate Benjamin F. Kramer, District 19
 - Delegate Frank M. Conaway, Jr., District 40
 - Delegate Sue Hecht, District 3A
 - Delegate Jolene Ivey, District 47
 - Delegate Roger P. Manno, District 19
 - Delegate James N. Mathias, Jr., District 38B
 - Delegate Tony McConkey, District 33A
 - Delegate Karen S. Montgomery, District 14
 - Delegate Victor R. Ramirez, District 47
 - Delegate Christopher B. Shank, District 2B
 - Delegate Luiz R. S. Simmons, District 17
 - Delegate Michael D. Smigiel, Sr., District 36
 - Delegate Herman L. Taylor, Jr., District 14
 
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- Consumer Protection -see also- Unfair Trade Practices
 - Disclosure
 - Fees -see also- Attys` Fees; Devt Fees & Taxes; Reimb Rates.
 - Hearings
 - Interest
 - Liability -see also- Good Samaritan
 - Notices
 - Penalties and Sentences -see also- Death Penalty
 - Public Service Commission
 - Records -see also- Land Records; Vital Records
 - Rules and Regulations
 - Telephones
 - Unfair Trade Practices
 - Utilities -see also- High Voltage Lines; Telephones; Water
 
Bill affects the following Statutes:
-   Commercial Law
 - (
 13-301 ,
 14-1322 
)
 
All documents except Roll Call Votes are
displayed in PDF format:
- Bill Text:
 First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled, Chapter
 - Fiscal and Policy Note:
 Available
 - Amendments:
 House 
- Number: 533996/01     Offered on: March 27, 2010      at:
11:43 a.m.     Status: Adopted
 
- 
Committee Votes :
 
 House 
- Economic Matters
 
Senate
- Finance
 
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
 House 
- March 25, 2010: Third Reading Passed  (139-0)
 
Senate
- April 2, 2010: Third Reading Passed  (47-0)
 - April 2, 2010: Third Reading Passed  (47-0)