A New Hampshire bill, HB 542, unrelated to...
A New Hampshire bill, HB 542, unrelated to telecom but recently amended to mention it, is intended by the amendment’s sponsor to hammer home the Legislature’s intentions related to VoIP and Internet Protocol-enabled services. The amendment addresses a source of…
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contention in a rulemaking under way at the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission, which runs contrary to how a state legislator saw a deregulatory law passed last year. “While the title of House Bill 542 says it is ‘relative to electric renewable portfolio standards,’ the issue of disagreement is a floor amendment I sponsored that passed the Senate last week,” wrote State Sen. Bob Odell (R), sponsor of last year’s deregulatory Senate Bill 48, in an update last week (http://bit.ly/16mLIeO). “It would emphasize that the Public Utilities Commission is not to regulate Voice Over the Internet Protocol (VOIP) and reaffirms other deregulatory policies already in statute.” The two bodies of the New Hampshire Legislature are still working through the amendments to the bill.