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Long Title
FULL TITLE : AN ACT PROHIBITING TELECOMMUNICATION COMPANIES FROM IMPOSING EXPIRATION DATES ON MOBILE PREPAID CALL AND TEXT CARDS AND THE FORFEITURE OF LOAD CREDITS, PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION THEREOF
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Date filed
February 22, 2017
Scope
Legislative History
| House Bill/Resolution NO. HB05109 | |
| FULL TITLE : AN ACT PROHIBITING TELECOMMUNICATION COMPANIES FROM IMPOSING EXPIRATION DATES ON MOBILE PREPAID CALL AND TEXT CARDS AND THE FORFEITURE OF LOAD CREDITS, PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION THEREOF | |
| SHORT TITLE : " Prepaid Load Protection Act " | |
| ABSTRACT : Enumerates what constitute as prohibited acts of any telecommunications network providing prepaid services and are declared unlawful as stated in the title, which also includes refusal to give refund to any prepaid subscriber whose load credits were forfeited without any valid cause. | |
| PRINCIPAL AUTHOR/S : CASTELO, WINSTON "WINNIE" | |
| DATE FILED : 2017-02-22 | |
| SIGNIFICANCE: NATIONAL | |
| CO-AUTHORS (Journal Entries) : | |
| 1. Sy-Alvarado (079 2017-03-07) | 2. Violago (002 2017-07-25) |
| ACTIONS TAKEN BY THE COMMITTEE | |
| COMMITEE HEARINGS/ACTIONS: | |
| 1. Scheduled for meeting/hearing on 2017-09-27 | |
| 2. Under deliberation by the Mother Committee on 2018-02-14 | |
| 3. Deliberated upon by the Mother Committee on 2018-03-14 | |
| 4. Under study by the Technical Working Group(TWG) on 2018-04-24 | |
| 5. Under study by the Technical Working Group(TWG) on 2018-05-15 | |
| ACTIONS TAKEN BY THE COMMITTEE ON RULES | |
| REFERRAL TO THE COMMITTEE ON INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY ON 2017-02-28 |
Abstract
Enumerates what constitute as prohibited acts of any telecommunications network providing prepaid services and are declared unlawful as stated in the title, which also includes refusal to give refund to any prepaid subscriber whose load credits were forfeited without any valid cause
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