2005 House Bill 5237 ↩

Senate Roll Call 546: Passed

To replace the expiring Michigan Telecommunications Act with a new law that limits the regulation of retail telephone rates to an "essential basic" residential plan of 100 calls per month that every phone company would be required to provide, and eliminates most other regulations after 2007. The new law would still include consumer protections such as bans on “slamming” and “cramming,” etc. It would restrict but not prohibit local governments from getting into the internet service provider business.