E Relating to telecommunications; regulating third party billing on telecommunications bills; prohibiting telephone companies or +telecommunications carriers providing local service from including on customer bills +charges for goods or services on behalf of third party service providers without +customer express authorization to the third party service provider for +inclusion of the charges on the bill, requiring removal of unauthorized charges from +the bill and credit for amounts paid under certain conditions, authorizing +recovery of credited charges; regulating customer authorizations, requiring +verification of oral or online authorizations; modifying certain provisions relating+ to alternative forms of regulating certain telephone companies; +modifying certain alternative regulation plan requirements, requiring telephone company+ notice of a proposed new plan, plan extension or reversion to rate of return +regulation before plan termination; requiring and providing for review and +approval of proposed new plans by the public utilities commission; regulating +extension of existing plans, rate capping requirement; authorizing the department +of commerce or the office of the attorney general to file objections to +extensions with the PUC under certain conditions, providing for hearing; +requiring joint determination between the department and small telephone companies of+ the validity of petitions against proposed rate increases and specifying +a time limit for department notice to the PUC of petition validations; +authorizing telephone companies operating under alternative regulation plans and +receiving an order from the federal communications commission (FCC) to provide +in region interLATA services to temporarily continue regulation under the +plans, authorizing election by the telephone companies of regulation under +traditional rate of return regulation with advance notice to the PUC, the office +of the attorney general and the department, specifying certain plan filing requirements (ja)