2005 House Bill 4067

Require expeditious phone service transfers

Introduced in the House

Jan. 27, 2005

Introduced by Rep. Tonya Schuitmaker (R-80)

To require the Public Service Commission to establish rules requiring a telephone company that provides basic local exchange service to promptly transfer the service of a customer to another phone company upon the customer’s request. Specifically, the bill would require that customer requests to smaller companies to switch local service would come under the same five-day maximum time allowed for the state’s largest phone company, which is SBC.

Referred to the Committee on Energy and Technology