1E Relating to telecommunications; modifying certain regulatory expense assessment provisions; replacing the requirement for telephone companies to pay for investigations with a new authority application payment requirement, requiring the public utilities commission to determine the amount of the payment, limit; requiring and providing for PUC establishment of a per number fee to fund the telephone assistance (TAP), telecommunications access (TAM) and 911 emergency and public safety communications programs, requiring remittance to the commissioner of revenue for allocation purposes; transferring the responsibility for regulation of the telephone assistance plan from the department of human services to the department of commerce and requiring the involvement of local service providers; authorizing use of money in the telephone assistance fund for promotional activities; regulating representations of 911 service, specifying certain restrictions and certain disclosure requirements; modifying certain 911 emergency communication system provisions to conform to the per number fee requirement; requiring commissioner of public safety grants to public safety answering points (PSAP) to fund enhanced 911 services; modifying the limit on use of the standing 911 appropriation for debt service costs; repealing the definitions of access line and telephone company under the telephone assistance plan and the expiration date of certain delegation and other powers of the PUC
(ra, ja)