BILL NUMBER: SB 1891	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Energy, Utilities and Communications
(Senators Bowen (Chair), Alarcon, Battin, Dunn, Morrow, Murray, Sher,
and Vasconcellos)

                        MARCH 1, 2004

   An act to add and repeal Section 316.6 of the Public Utilities
Code, relating to telecommunications.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1891, as introduced, Committee on Energy, Utilities and
Communications.  Telecommunications market:  report to the
Legislature.
   Existing law repealed as of January 1, 2004, a requirement that
the Public Utilities Commission submit to the Legislature, on or
before October 31 of each year, a report on, among other things, the
status of competition in the telecommunications marketplace.
   This bill would, until January 1, 2007, require the commission to
submit a report to the Legislature, on or before October 31 of each
year, on the competitiveness of the telecommunications markets in the
state.
   Vote:  majority.  Appropriation:  no.  Fiscal committee:  yes.
State-mandated local program:  no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 316.6 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to
read:
   316.6.  (a) The commission shall submit a report to the
Legislature, on or before October 31 of each year, on the
competitiveness of the telecommunications markets in the state.
   (b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2007, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2007, deletes or extends
that date.