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IN HB1192
Bill
Status
1/10/2017
Primary Sponsor
David Ober
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AI Summary
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Amends IC 5-28-28.5-6 to require local governmental units seeking "broadband ready community" certification to establish a broadband adoption procedure in addition to existing permit procedure requirements.
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Adds new IC 5-28-28.5-8 defining "broadband adoption" as the number of individuals who subscribe to broadband services as defined in IC 8-1-33-8.
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Requires certified units to establish procedures including: a single point of contact for broadband adoption, notification to existing communications service providers, and coordination with providers to promote broadband adoption.
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Prohibits adoption procedures from discriminating among communications service providers or imposing fees on providers to fund broadband adoption promotion.
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Effective July 1, 2017.
Legislative Description
Broadband development. Provides that a local governmental unit that wishes to be certified as a broadband ready community must establish a procedure under which the unit promotes increasing the number of subscribers to broadband services in the unit after the unit is certified as a broadband ready community.
Last Action
First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications
1/10/2017