Telecommunications: Moore Universal Telephone Service Act.

The Moore Universal Telephone Service Act established the Universal Lifeline Telephone Service program in order to provide low-income households with access to affordable basic residential telephone service. The act requires the commission to: (1) annually designate a class of lifeline service necessary to meet minimum communications needs, including the ability to originate and receive calls and the ability to access electronic information services, (2) set the rates and charges for that service, (3) develop eligibility criteria for that service, and (4) assess the degree of achievement of universal service, including penetration rates by income, ethnicity, and geography. The act requires that these 4 items of information be annually reported to the Legislature by the commission in a document that can be made public. This bill would make a nonsubstantive revision to the provision requiring that the items of information be annually reported to the Legislature by the commission in a document that can be made public.