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S4083 • 2026

Requires CATV company to establish toll-free telephone number for customers to report and to receive updates concerning CATV service outages.

Requires CATV company to establish toll-free telephone number for customers to report and to receive updates concerning CATV service outages.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Bucco, Anthony M.
Last action
2026-05-04
Official status
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Economic Growth Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Requires CATV company to establish toll-free telephone number for customers to report and to receive updates concerning CATV service outages.

Requires CATV company to establish toll-free telephone number for customers to report and to receive updates concerning CATV service outages.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires CATV company to establish toll-free telephone number for customers to report and to receive updates concerning CATV service outages.
  • Topic: Economic Growth Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-05-04 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Economic Growth Committee

Official Summary Text

Requires CATV company to establish toll-free telephone number for customers to report and to receive updates concerning CATV service outages.
Topic:
Economic Growth
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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S4083

SENATE, No. 4083

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED MAY 4, 2026

Sponsored by:

Senator� ANTHONY M. BUCCO

District 25 (Morris and Passaic)

Senator� JAMES BEACH

District 6 (Burlington and Camden)

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires CATV company to establish toll-free
telephone number for customers to report and to receive updates concerning CATV
service outages.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

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An Act

concerning a cable television service outage
toll-free telephone number and supplementing Title 48 of the Revised Statutes.

����
Be It
Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� a.�� A cable television
company shall establish and maintain a toll-free telephone number that may be
used by its customers to report CATV service outages, to receive updates
concerning the status of CATV service outages, and to receive information
concerning the resumption of CATV service, which shall include, but not be
limited to, an estimated time of CATV service restoration.

���� b.��� A cable television
company shall publish the toll-free telephone number required, pursuant to
subsection a. of this section, with an explanation of the purpose of the toll-free
telephone number, on every periodic bill sent to each customer of the cable
television company and in a prominent location on the homepage of the cable
television company�s Internet website.

���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect immediately but shall remain inoperative for 60 days following the date
of enactment.

STATEMENT

���� This bill requires a cable
television (CATV) company to establish and maintain a toll-free telephone
number that may be used by its customers to report CATV service outages, to
receive updates concerning the status of CATV service outages, and to receive
information concerning the resumption of CATV service, which shall include, but
not be limited to, an estimated time of CATV service restoration.

���� Under the bill, a CATV company
is to publish the toll-free telephone number, with an explanation of the
purpose of the toll-free telephone number, on every periodic bill sent to each
customer of the cable television company and in a prominent location on the
homepage of the CATV company�s Internet website.