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Committee creates study to review Telecommunications Relay Service fund
Summary
The committee approved House Resolution 590 to form a study committee to review the Telecommunications Relay Service fund and related programs administered by the Public Service Commission, citing technology changes and falling use of the relay service.
The House Energy, Utilities & Telecommunications Committee voted to approve House Resolution 590, establishing a study committee to review the state's Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS) fund and the programs it supports.
Representative Dickey introduced the resolution and said the TRS fund, created by the General Assembly in 1990, supports a relay service and three additional programs: a telecommunications equipment program, a hearing-aid program, and services that provide audible versions of newspapers and magazines for people who are blind. "It's been 35 years since this phone was created," the Public Service Commission's telecommunications…
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