Relating to telecommunications; defining telecommunications terms; establishing state telecommunications and broadband goals; specifying public utilities commission (PUC) jurisdiction; requiring the PUC to determine rules for wire crossing or paralleling utility lines; terminating alternative regulation plans; granting PUC authority for wholesale telecommunications services; specifying requirements for schedules, tariffs, and individual contracts; establishing provider certification, registration, and mapping; requiring the PUC to establish a universal service fund; requiring annual universal service funding certification; defining public right-of-way terms; specifying use and regulation of public right-of-way, a combined local access surcharge, and a combined per number fee; establishing the telecommunications access Minnesota program and a fund with appropriation and specifying communication device eligibility requirements; requiring contracting for relay service; providing adequate service enforcement, antislamming, and long-distance providers notice and disclosure requirements; regulating loading; prohibiting billing for unauthorized charges; regulating private shared services; providing for the telephone assistance plan (TAP) development and a fund with an appropriation; defining call location information and disclosure; requiring acquisition by condemnation PUC notice; requiring PUC regulatory expenses assessment and proprietary information protection; providing PUC administrative proceedings, appeals, remedies, penalties, injunction, and private cause of action prohibition; transferring all telecommunications duties from the department of commerce to the PUC; repealing all current telephone, telegraph, and telecommunications statutes and certain state agency rules
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