Committee recommends keeping and modernizing broadband fund, with affordability dollars retained
SB152 would remove a sunset and restructure uses of a rural telecommunications fund to preserve maintenance dollars, expand broadband and keep an affordability allocation; the committee recommended the bill 8–0 after broad stakeholder support and identified further technical amendments ahead of Finance.
The full story
The Senate Tax, Business and Transportation Committee voted to recommend Senate Bill 152, which reauthorizes and modernizes several uses of the state rural telecommunications fund and preserves a dedicated affordability component.
Sign up to keep reading.
Your free newsletter brings you what your city council, county, and school board discussed and decided.
or
Free account
Keep reading for free
Create a free account to finish this story and see the video, transcript and key details.
Continue with GoogleContinue with emailAlready have an account? Log in