Bill Text - HB508 (2025)

Relative to decreasing assessment rates for entities providing VoIP and IP-enabled services, as well as certain local exchange carriers and their affiliates.


Revision: Feb. 20, 2025, 11:15 a.m.

HB 508-FN - AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

 

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2025 SESSION

25-0582

06/02

 

HOUSE BILL 508-FN

 

AN ACT relative to decreasing assessment rates for entities providing VoIP and IP-enabled services, as well as certain local exchange carriers and their affiliates.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Harrington, Straf. 18; Rep. Summers, Rock. 20

 

COMMITTEE: Science, Technology and Energy

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill decreases the gross utility revenue of all excepted local exchange carriers, and all providers' gross revenue received from New Hampshire retail customers for a VoIP service or an IP-enabled service.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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06/02

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

 

AN ACT relative to decreasing assessment rates for entities providing VoIP and IP-enabled services, as well as certain local exchange carriers and their affiliates.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  Expenses of Public Utilities Commission Against Certain Utilities; Assessment.  Amend RSA 363-A:2, I(c) and (d) to read as follows:

(c) [33] 10 percent of the gross utility revenue of all excepted local exchange carriers as defined in RSA 362:7, I(c), and [33] 10 percent of the gross revenue of any affiliate of such a carrier received from New Hampshire retail customers for a VoIP service as defined in RSA 362:7, I(d) or an IP-enabled service as defined in RSA 362:7, I(e) that provides the voice capabilities described in RSA 362:7, I(d)(1) and (3), other than a cellular mobile radio communications service provider;

(d) [33] 10 percent of all providers' gross revenue received from New Hampshire retail customers for a VoIP service as defined in RSA 362:7, I(d) or an IP-enabled service as defined in RSA 362:7, I(e) that provides the voice capabilities described in RSA 362:7, I(d)(1) and (3), other than a cellular mobile radio communications service provider or any entity to which subparagraph (c) applies; and

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.

 

LBA

25-0582

Revised 1/30/25

 

HB 508-FN- FISCAL NOTE

AS INTRODUCED

 

AN ACT relative to decreasing assessment rates for entities providing VoIP and IP-enabled services, as well as certain local exchange carriers and their affiliates.

 

FISCAL IMPACT:

The Legislative Budget Assistant has determined that this legislation has a total fiscal impact of less than $10,000 in each of the fiscal years 2025 through 2028.

 

AGENCIES CONTACTED:

Department of Energy and Public Utilities Commission