 | Topic | Supporters | Opponents | Bill number | Author |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Telecommunications: access to state property for wireless facilities: California Teleconnect Fund Administrative Committee Fund: Digital Divide Account. | 4 | 1 | AB 855 (2003-2004) | Firebaugh | |
| This bill seeks to facilitate the placement of wireless telecommunication towers and facilities on state-owned property and to use a portion of new lease revenues from these facilities to address the state's "digital divide." | |||||
| Local cable television: franchises. | 1 | 3 | AB 2242 (2003-2004) | Vargas | |
| Changes local government requirements regarding cable franchise service authorization. | |||||
| Water use fees. | 3 | 1 | AB 2422 (2003-2004) | La Malfa | |
| Suspends various water rights fees imposed by the State Water Resources Control Board until it implements a revised fee structure that reflects the findings and recommendations of an advisory group. | |||||
| Public utilities: stocks and security transactions. | 2 | 1 | AB 2505 (2003-2004) | Maldonado | |
| This bill exempts most large telephone corporations from the prior approval requirement for the issuance of stock or debt | |||||
| Telecommunications. | 2 | 1 | AB 2577 (2003-2004) | La Suer | |
| Allows telephone and telegraph companies to share with third parties information about a subscriber's calling patterns, credit information, or service history under specified situations without obtaining a customers written consent. | |||||
| Telecommunications: regulatory streamlining. | 1 | 1 | AB 442 (2003-2004) | Richman | |
| This bill allows the California Public Utilities Commission to exempt telephone companies from its regulations; it has no authority over companies utilizing internet communications. | |||||
| Cellular and wireless telephone service billing statements. | 1 | 1 | AB 451 (2003-2004) | Lowenthal | |
| This bill requires wireless telephone service providers to include certain information in a customer's billing statement. | |||||
| Telecommunications: local and long-distance service. | 1 | 1 | AB 909 (2003-2004) | Reyes | |
| This bill requires telephone companies to disclose certain types of billing information for customers who purchase bundled service packages. | |||||
| Telecommunications services. | 3 | 0 | SB 720 (2003-2004) | Bowen | |
| This bill provides for payment of installation costs and discounts for use of high speed Internet services for schools, libraries, community-based organizations, and hospitals owned by cities or counties. | |||||
| Telecommunications: telephone service rates: universal service programs. | 1 | 0 | SB 1276 (2003-2004) | Bowen | |
| Requires the State Public Utilities Commission to provide affordable telephone rates in high cost areas. | |||||
| Telecommunications: deaf and disabled telecommunications program. | 2 | 0 | AB 1981 (2003-2004) | Wolk | |
| Requires disabled telephone subscribers to have the option of receiving a cell phone with assistive features instead of a land line and prohibits the charging of additional fees. | |||||
| Telecommunications: access to local government property for wireless telecommunications. | 0 | 1 | AB 2135 (2003-2004) | Levine | |
| Requires local governments to compile and maintain lists of their property that might be suitable to leasing for wireless telecommunications equipment. | |||||
| Telecommunications: lease of state property for wireless facilities: Digital Opportunities Account in the California Teleconnect Fund Administrative Committee Fund. | 1 | 0 | AB 2172 (2003-2004) | Levine | |
| Allows the leasing of Department of General Services managed property to cellular telephone companies, allowing them to put wireless towers on state property. | |||||
| Telecommunications: grants to areas not served by local exchange carriers. | 1 | 0 | AB 2758 (2003-2004) | Berg | |
| This bill extends a bill funded out of an existing surcharge on telephone services that extends telecommunications services to specified low-income communities. | |||||
| Telecommunications: billings. | 1 | 0 | AB 2799 (2003-2004) | Calderon | |
| Requires only the essential terms of an agreement for telephone services to be disclosed if it accompanies a written solicitation for a product or service and also establishes payment obligations for customers as a result of contractual obligations or usage of the product or service. | |||||
| Information technology classifications. | SB 99 (2003-2004) | Burton | |||
| This bill permits the Legislative Data Center (LDC) to make permanent an information technology broadband classification structure. | |||||
| Telecommunications: caller identification. | SB 830 (2003-2004) | Florez | |||
| This bill requires that every telephone call identification service offered in this state by a telephone corporation, or by any other person or corporation that makes use of the facilities of a telephone corporation, to offer that service without charge to any elementary or secondary public school. | |||||
| Public utilities: high speed communications services. | SB 834 (2003-2004) | Bowen | |||
| This bill requires the Public Utilities Commission to convene a proceeding to consider how to encourage more competition in the high speed communications services business. | |||||
| Criminal history information. | SB 1388 (2003-2004) | Ortiz | |||
| This bill allows cable companies access to state and federal criminal history information for their employees and contract employees who may be seeking entrance to private residences and/or adjacent grounds. | |||||
| Telecommunications: commercial mobile radio services. | AB 508 (2003-2004) | McCarthy | |||
| This bill establishes that a telephone corporation does not include a person or corporation that provides commercial mobile radio services, with specifications. | |||||
| Department of General Services: communication contracts. | AB 2259 (2003-2004) | Nakanishi | |||
| Requires the Department of General Services to make communications systems available to specified private, nonprofit, tax-exempt corporations on the same terms and conditions as public agencies. | |||||
| Cable television operators and video providers. | AB 2797 (2003-2004) | Leslie | |||
| Makes a nonsubstantive change to the law that prohibits a cable television operator or video provider from charging for a service that is provided to a consumer at no charge unless the consumer affirmatively and specifically elects to continue that service. | |||||
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