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ID H0619
Bill
AI Summary
HB 619 Summary
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Establishes licensing requirements for information transport contractors and technicians, effective January 1, 2011, requiring licensure through the Idaho Division of Building Safety before performing information transport system installations.
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Expands the Idaho Electrical Board from 9 to 10 members, adding one member who is a licensed information transport contractor or technician whose primary business is information transport systems installation.
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Defines information transport systems as communications systems including telecommunications, data, audio-visual, and antenna systems, and establishes classifications for information transport contractors, technicians, trainees, and helpers.
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Requires information transport contractors to maintain $300,000 liability insurance and establishes licensing fees ($125 for contractor license, $55 for technician license, $30 for trainee registration).
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Provides exemptions from information transport licensing for certain installations including residential properties, educational facilities, and cord-and-plug connected equipment maintenance.
Legislative Description
Adds to and amends existing law relating to the Idaho electrical board and information transport contractors to provide that it shall be unlawful for certain entities to act or attempt to act as an information transport contractor until such entity shall have received a certain license; to provide that it shall be unlawful for any person to act as an information transport technician until such person shall have received a certain license, to provide that the administrator of the Division of Building Safety shall have certain authority over information transport contractors, information transport technicians, information transport trainees or information transport helpers, to provide for classifications of information transport contractor, information transport technician, information transport trainee, and information transport helper, to revise provisions relating to the composition of the Idaho Electrical Board, to revise provisions relating to the issuance of licenses, to revise provisions relating to the revocation or suspension of licenses, to revise fees and to revise provisions relating to violations of law.
IDAHO ELECTRICAL BOARD
Last Action
to Bus
3/3/2010