Assembly Bill No. 565

Assembly Bill No. 565-Assemblymen Arberry, Williams, Herrera, Giunchigliani, Perkins, Price, Anderson, Berman, de Braga, Evans, Freeman and Chowning

June 5, 1997
____________

Referred to Committee on Transportation

SUMMARY--Prohibits public utility that furnishes telephone service from terminating access to 911 emergency telephone number or other emergency telephone service after service is terminated for nonpayment. (BDR 58-568)

FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: No.

Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: No.

EXPLANATION - Matter in italics is new; matter in brackets [ ] is material to be omitted.

AN ACT relating to telephones; prohibiting a public utility that furnishes telephone service from terminating access to the 911 emergency telephone number or other emergency telephone service after the service is terminated for nonpayment; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

~^
Section 1 Chapter 707 of NRS is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section to read as follows:
A public utility that furnishes telephone service in this state shall not, when it terminates telephone service to a customer for nonpayment of that service, terminate the customer's access to the 911 emergency telephone number or other emergency telephone service.