2009 House Bill 4257 ↩

Senate Roll Call 681: Passed

To impose what is essentially a new tax on all phone service providers (except Voice Over Internet Protocol providers) to pay a subsidy to small phone companies for a reduction in intrastate toll rates they would be allowed to charge. The bill repeals an exemption for those small companies from a government-mandated price control that prohibits intrastate toll service charges greater than out-of-state tolls.