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:
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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
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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)
