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FROM: Phil Batchelor. Cwtra
County Administrator
DATE: June 13, 1988 Ca.^
SUBJECT: Legislation: Senate Bill 679 (Rosenthal) v
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION:
Remove the Board' s previous opposition to SB - 679 and, instead,
support the bill as amended April 25, 1988 which now eliminates
the cost to the consumer of deleting access to 1197611 prefixes.
BACKGROUND:
On May 19, 1987, the Board of Supervisors, on the recommendation
of the Director of General Services, took a position in
opposition to SB 679 by Senator Rosenthal because the bill would
have directed the Public Utilities Commission to develop and
implement plans to partially deregulate local telephone service
in one of the State' s telephone service areas.
SB 679 has now been amended and now does all of the following:
1. Directs the Public Utilities Commission to impose no charge
on subscribers to delete access to 976 prefixes.
2 . Requires telephone companies to refund any amounts paid by
subscribers for deletion.
3 . Requires the Public Utilities Commission to determine and
implement a method to reimburse telephone corporations for
the expense of providing the deletion of access option.
4. Directs the Public Utilities Commission to require every
telephone corporation which provides information access
telephone service with a separate telephone prefix for
material considered harmful.
5. Directs the Public Utilities Commission to require telephone
corporations to offer the option of deleting access to the
prefix which accesses messages constituting harmful matter,
and to determine and implement a method to reimburse
telephone corporations for the expense of providing this
selective deletion option. .
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: _ YES SIGNATURE:
_ RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
_ APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(S): pp y
ACTION OF BOARD ON June 21 , 90 0 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED /
OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
UNANIMOUS (ABSENT ��— ) AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
AYES: NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
CC: County Administrator ATTESTED JUN 2. 1
Director, General Services PHIL BATCHELOR. CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
Senator Herschel Rosenthal SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
Ralph Heim, Jackson/Barish
2/1-83
BY �� p/� —,DEPUTY DEPUTY
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SB 679 is now similar to several of the other bills on which
the Board has previously taken a support position addressing the
11976" prefix issue. As a result, it appears appropriate for the
Board to remove their previous opposition to this bill and,
instead, to support it.