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House approves fund to reimburse local water systems for broadband construction damage; no automatic appropriation
Summary
Lawmakers created a local infrastructure fund to reimburse municipal water systems for damage tied to broadband and related construction, but the statute requires future appropriations and does not automatically divert telecom tax revenue. The bill passed on the House floor after technical amendments.
BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana House adopted a bill to create a state-local fund to help communities reimburse water systems for damage caused by broadband and other infrastructure construction, but the measure does not itself appropriate money into the account.
Representative Desotel, the bill author, said the planned expansion of broadband and related construction would increase stress on municipal water systems across the state. “What I'm trying to do here is set up a fund,” Desotel said on the House floor, describing the measure…
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