Florida Senate - 2018                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1018
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  01/10/2018           .                                
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       The Committee on Communications, Energy, and Public Utilities
       (Bean) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section
    6  364.10, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         364.10 Lifeline service.—
    8         (1)(a) An eligible telecommunications carrier shall provide
    9  a Lifeline Assistance Plan to qualified residential subscribers,
   10  as defined in the eligible telecommunications carrier’s
   11  published schedules. For the purposes of this section, the term
   12  “eligible telecommunications carrier” means a telecommunications
   13  company, as defined by s. 364.02, or , for the limited purpose
   14  of qualification to provide Lifeline service, any commercial
   15  mobile radio service provider. Such company or provider must
   16  also be which is designated as an eligible telecommunications
   17  carrier by the commission pursuant to 47 C.F.R. s. 54.201.
   18         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2018.
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   21  And the title is amended as follows:
   22         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   23  and insert:
   24                        A bill to be entitled                      
   25         An act relating to Lifeline service; amending s.
   26         364.10, F.S.; revising the term “eligible
   27         telecommunications carrier” to include commercial
   28         mobile radio service providers under a specified
   29         circumstance; providing an effective date.