Bills in Hawaii legislature to establish price cap regulation sys...
Bills in Hawaii legislature to establish price cap regulation system for Verizon Hawaii died when they failed to pass out of committee by legislature’s “advance or die” procedural deadline. Measures (HB-2255, SB-2864, SB-2874) would have let Verizon switch from…
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current rate-of-return regime to indexed price caps without any explicit prerequisites or trade-offs. There’s outside chance language could be attached as amendment to other legislation, but that’s seen as unlikely given lack of support from Hawaii PUC or leading state lawmakers. In Va., Gov. Mark Warner (D) signed bill to conform state’s wireless tax laws to federal law and to authorize collection of state E-911 surcharge on wireless services. New law (SB-122) makes mobile services taxable at subscriber’s place of primary use, typically home or workplace, regardless of where wireless call actually occurs. New wireless E-911 tax amount will be set once revenue need is determined. Surcharge will be distributed to state’s E-911 centers and qualifying wireless carriers to defray costs of providing pinpoint location of wireless phone placing 911 call.