Section 759.695 - Program for assistive telecommunication devices and communication facilitator services; program for adaptive equipment(1) With the advice of the Telecommunication Devices Access Program Advisory Committee, the Public Utility Commission shall establish and administer a statewide program to: (a) Purchase and distribute assistive telecommunication devices to persons who are deaf, deaf-blind, hard of hearing or speech impaired and establish a telecommunications relay service; and(b) Provide communication facilitator services to persons who are deaf-blind when the services are necessary.(2) With the advice of the Telecommunication Devices Access Program Advisory Committee, the Public Utility Commission shall establish and administer a statewide program to purchase and distribute adaptive equipment to make telephone service generally available to persons with physical disabilities.Amended by 2019 Ch. 113,§ 3, eff. 1/1/2020.1987 c.290 §11; 1991 c.872 §4; 1999 c. 384, § 3; 2007 c. 70, § 355; 2011 c. 78, § 3; 2011 c. 264, § 3