1.  The Commission shall adopt regulations governing the provision of an inmate calling service, which must prescribe a procedure for:

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(a) Establishing rate caps for inmate calling services in an amount that does not exceed any rate caps prescribed by the Federal Communications Commission for providers of interstate or international inmate calling services;

(b) Defining and limiting ancillary service charges that providers may charge users of inmate calling services in a manner consistent with any limitations on such charges prescribed by the Federal Communications Commission for providers of interstate or international inmate calling services;

(c) Limiting the taxes or fees that providers may charge users of inmate calling services in a manner consistent with any limitations on the collection of any taxes or fees prescribed by the Federal Communications Commission for providers of interstate or international inmate calling services; and

(d) Approving a schedule or tariff that exceeds a rate cap or fails to comply with a limitation established by the Commission in accordance with this subsection.

2.  The Commission shall annually review and, if necessary, revise a rate cap or limitation established by the Commission pursuant to the procedure required by regulations adopted pursuant to subsection 1.

3.  As used in this section, ‘ancillary service charge’ means a charge relating to the use of inmate calling services that is not included in the per-minute charge assessed for a call.