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1 | | HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
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2 | | WHEREAS, The deployment and adoption of rural high-speed |
3 | | Internet services and information
technology has resulted in |
4 | | enhanced economic development and public safety for the
State's |
5 | | communities, improved health care and educational |
6 | | opportunities, and a better
quality of life for the State's |
7 | | residents; and
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8 | | WHEREAS, Continued progress in the deployment and adoption |
9 | | of rural high speed Internet services
and information |
10 | | technology is vital in ensuring that the State of Illinois |
11 | | remains competitive and
continues to create business and job |
12 | | growth; therefore, be it
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13 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE |
14 | | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE SENATE |
15 | | CONCURRING HEREIN, that the Rural Broadband Deployment Task |
16 | | Force is created; and be it further
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17 | | RESOLVED, That the Rural Broadband Deployment Task Force |
18 | | shall consist of the following members: |
19 | | (1) one Senate member appointed by the Senate |
20 | | President, who shall serve as co-chairperson; |
21 | | (2) one Senate member appointed by the Senate Minority |
22 | | Leader; |
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1 | | (3) one House member appointed by the Speaker of the |
2 | | House, who shall serve as co-chairperson; |
3 | | (4) one House member appointed by the House Minority |
4 | | Leader; |
5 | | (5) the Director of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, |
6 | | or his or her designee; |
7 | | (6) the Chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission, |
8 | | or his or her designee; |
9 | | (7) the Secretary of Transportation, or his or her |
10 | | designee; |
11 | | (8) the Chairman of the Illinois State Toll Highway |
12 | | Authority, or his or her designee; |
13 | | (9) the Chairman of the Illinois Finance Authority, or |
14 | | his or her designee; |
15 | | (10) the State Superintendent of Education, or his or |
16 | | her designee; |
17 | | (11) the Chairman of the Board of Higher Education, or |
18 | | his or her designee |
19 | | (12) the Director of Central Management Services, or |
20 | | his or her designee; and |
21 | | (13) the Director of Innovation & Technology, or his or |
22 | | her designee; and be it further
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23 | | RESOLVED, That appointments to the Rural Broadband |
24 | | Deployment Task Force shall be made with consideration of the |
25 | | diversity of the State,
including members representing rural |
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1 | | areas, underserved rural areas, consumer interests,
community |
2 | | interests, commercial interests including Incumbent and |
3 | | Competitive Local
Exchange Carriers, and other entities |
4 | | providing communications or information services but not
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5 | | classified as Local Exchange Carriers; and be it further
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6 | | RESOLVED, That the Rural Broadband Deployment Task Force |
7 | | shall be charged with the following duties: |
8 | | (1) identify those portions of the rural |
9 | | telecommunications infrastructure owned by agencies
of the |
10 | | State of Illinois that can be made available for lease to |
11 | | commercial ventures, non-profit
agencies, and local |
12 | | governments and to establish standard procedures and |
13 | | pricing for lease of
that infrastructure; |
14 | | (2) study any rural infrastructure improvements that |
15 | | are currently underway by the State of Illinois; this |
16 | | includes the installation of an underground conduit that |
17 | | can be
made available on a non-discriminatory basis to |
18 | | public, private, and non-profit entities interested
in |
19 | | running fiber-optic lines for communications or |
20 | | information services through the conduit; |
21 | | (3) study the current level of coordination between |
22 | | rural private and public telecommunications
deployment, |
23 | | including, but not limited to, grant-making and financing |
24 | | of various statewide, local,
and regional efforts and |
25 | | public-private partnerships; |
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1 | | (4) study the available rural State, federal, and |
2 | | private
funding sources for private and public |
3 | | telecommunications deployment; |
4 | | (5) study rural telecommunications
initiatives that |
5 | | require legislative approval, including the creation of a |
6 | | State entity that handles
distribution of funds for private |
7 | | and public telecommunications projects; |
8 | | (7) study ways to foster competition among all rural |
9 | | entities providing commercial communications or
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10 | | information services; and |
11 | | (8) assess and catalog the rural telecommunications |
12 | | infrastructure of the State of
Illinois for the purpose of |
13 | | determining the present and future needs of the State with |
14 | | respect to
realizing the goals of competition, |
15 | | affordability, universal service, and securing the State's
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16 | | telecommunications and economic future; and be it further
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17 | | RESOLVED, That members of the Rural Broadband Deployment |
18 | | Task Force shall serve without compensation and the Illinois
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19 | | Department of Innovation & Technology shall provide |
20 | | administrative and other support to the
Task Force; and be it |
21 | | further
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22 | | RESOLVED, That the Rural Broadband Deployment Task Force |
23 | | shall submit its final report
to General Assembly by December |
24 | | 31, 2018; and be it further
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