HB 62 Summary

• Amends Section 11-50B-3 of the Alabama Code to modify compensation requirements for telecommunications providers using public rights-of-way.

• Specifies that fair and reasonable compensation from telecommunications providers shall not include in-kind fiber or network build-out requirements.

• Requires all right-of-way fees to be cost-based, whether calculated as a permitting fee, a fee per linear foot, or a percentage of gross revenues originating and terminating within city limits less wholesale revenues.

• Maintains state and local governmental agencies' authority to manage public rights-of-way on a competitively neutral and nondiscriminatory basis.

• Becomes effective on the first day of the third month following passage and approval by the Governor.