CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
SENATE
BILL 5370
Chapter 166, Laws of 1997
55th Legislature
1997 Regular Session
TELECOMMUNICATIONS RATE
REDUCTIONS--STREAMLINE OF PROCESS
EFFECTIVE DATE: 7/27/97
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Passed by the Senate March 14,
1997
YEAS 47 NAYS 0
 BRAD
OWEN
President of the Senate
Passed by the House April 11, 1997
YEAS 96 NAYS 0
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CERTIFICATE
I, Mike O=Connell, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby
certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5370 as passed by the Senate
and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.
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CLYDE BALLARD
Speaker of the
House of Representatives
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 MIKE O'CONNELL
Secretary
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Approved April 23, 1997 Place Style On
Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.
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FILED
April 23, 1997 - 4:36 p.m.
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GARY LOCKE
Governor of the State of Washington
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Secretary of State
State of Washington
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SENATE
BILL 5370
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Passed
Legislature - 1997 Regular Session
State
of Washington 55th Legislature 1997 Regular Session
By
Read
first time 01/24/97. Referred to Committee on Energy & Utilities.
Allowing a telecommunications company to reduce a rate or charge in a
more streamlined manner.
AN
ACT Relating to reducing the time required for public notice of
telecommunications rate reductions; and reenacting and amending RCW 80.36.110.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW
80.36.110 and 1989 c 152 s 2 and 1989 c 101 s 10 are each reenacted and amended
to read as follows:
(1)
Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, unless the commission
otherwise orders, no change shall be made in any rate, toll, rental, or charge,
((which shall have been)) that was filed and published by any
telecommunications company in compliance with the requirements of RCW
80.36.100, except after thirty days' notice to the commission and publication
for thirty days as required in the case of original schedules in RCW 80.36.100,
which notice shall plainly state the changes proposed to be made in the
schedule then in force, and the time when the changed rate, toll, or charge
will go into effect, and all proposed changes shall be shown by printing,
filing and publishing new schedules, or shall be plainly indicated upon the
schedules in force at the time and kept open to public inspection. Proposed
changes may be suspended by the commission within thirty days or before the
stated effective date of the proposed change, whichever is later. The
commission for good cause shown may allow changes in rates, charges, tolls, or
rentals without requiring the thirty days' notice and publication ((herein))
provided for in this section, by an order specifying the change ((so))
to be made and the time when it ((shall)) takes effect, and the
manner in which the ((same shall)) change will be filed and
published. When any change is made in any rate, toll, rental, or
charge, the effect of which is to increase any rate, toll, rental, or
charge then existing, attention shall be directed on the copy filed with the
commission to ((such)) the increase by some character immediately
preceding or following the item in ((such)) the schedule, which
character shall be in such a form as the commission may designate.
(2)
A telecommunications company may file a tariff that decreases any rate, charge,
rental, or toll with ten days' notice to the commission and publication without
receiving a special order from the commission when the filing does not contain
an offsetting increase to another rate, charge, rental, or toll, and the filing
company agrees not to file for an increase to any rate, charge, rental, or toll
to recover the revenue deficit that results from the decrease for a period of
one year.
Passed the Senate March 14, 1997.
Passed the House April 11, 1997.
Approved by the Governor
April 23, 1997.
Filed
in Office of Secretary of State April 23, 1997.