---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to commercial mobile radio and cellular telephone service providers"
description: "Allows the commission to designate any commercial mobile radio or cellular telephone service providers as an eligible telecommunications carrier for purposes of providing lifeline service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "S 6936"
citation: "New York S 6936 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["PARKER"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-01-06"
last_action: "2020-02-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ce53ed70-994f-4a51-9e7c-ebd8cc8ec716"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/S6936"
source_hash: "16f45b2fe1739496fd673b3d8cafb02760b14d2dbfaa6494fe9d943324fd891c"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---

# New York S 6936 (2019-2020) — Relates to commercial mobile radio and cellular telephone service providers

Allows the commission to designate any commercial mobile radio or cellular telephone service providers as an eligible telecommunications carrier for purposes of providing lifeline service.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S6936** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S6936&term=2019&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Rules Vote — **18–0** (pass) · upper
- Floor Vote — **55–5** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **144–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- PARKER — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2020-01-06** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-08** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-09** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.15
- **2020-01-13** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2020-01-13** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2020-01-13** REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-28** SUBSTITUTED FOR A8986
- **2020-01-28** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.342
- **2020-01-28** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2020-01-28** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2020-01-30** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-03** SIGNED CHAP.13 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ce53ed70-994f-4a51-9e7c-ebd8cc8ec716`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).