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Committee renames broadband office to include digital opportunity, adopts technical amendments
Summary
House File 2279 would rename the state's Office of Broadband Development to include a focus on digital opportunity and update goals to emphasize access, adoption and affordability; the committee adopted two technical author's amendments (A1 and A2) and laid the bill over for possible inclusion in future legislation.
Representative Vang presented House File 2279, which renames the Office of Broadband Development to the Office of Broadband Development and Digital Opportunity and aligns state terminology with federal digital-opportunity planning. The committee adopted an A1 technical amendment and an A2 amendment that deleted grant-establishment language and aligned terminology with federal language; both amendments were adopted by voice vote and the bill was laid over.
Representative Vang and Hennepin County testifiers emphasized that broadband is necessary infrastructure for education, health care, farm operations…
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