Legislative Session number- 83

Bill Name: SF1937

Requiring telephone companies (telecommunications service providers) +billing
customers for goods or services appearing as charges on local phone +bills to
obtain express authorization from the customers, specifying and +regulating the
use of certain authorization methods and defining certain terms; +requiring
provider registration with the public utilities commission after a +certain date
to offer products or services with charges appearing on bills of +billing
agents; regulating billing aggregator forwarding of charges for +services or
products offered by the provider to a billing agent, prohibiting +billing agents
from knowingly billing on behalf of nonregistered providers, +providing a
rebuttable presumption of acting knowingly and requiring immediate +removal or
reimbursement of charges billed to customers in violation of the +prohibition;
requiring the PUC by a certain date to adopt procedures governing +the
registration of service providers and billing aggregators, specifying+ grounds
for denial of application and prescribing the registration revocation procedure;
requiring the commission to post the names of new +registrants on the PUC web
site within a certain amount of time of the effective date of+ the registration
and to notify telephone utilities and billing +aggregators of registration
revocations within a certain amount of time after the +revocation; prescribing
procedures for billing agents to follow upon customer +notice of complaint (ra)