Indiana House Bill 1626 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-3)
Status: Passed on April 12 2017 - 100% progression
Action: 2017-04-12 - Public Law 33
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Study of universal service for telecommunications. Provides that a local governmental unit (unit) that wishes to be certified as a broadband ready community must establish a procedure (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. Specifies criteria for the procedure. Prohibits: (1) discrimination among communication service providers with respect to broadband adoption in the unit; and (2) imposition of a fee on communications service providers to fund promotion of broadband adoption in the unit; under the procedure established to promote broadband

Study of universal service for telecommunications. Provides that a local governmental unit (unit) that wishes to be certified as a broadband ready community must establish a procedure (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. Specifies criteria for the procedure. Prohibits: (1) discrimination among communication service providers with respect to broadband adoption in the unit; and (2) imposition of a fee on communications service providers to fund promotion of broadband adoption in the unit; under the procedure established to promote broadband

Rep. Sharon Negele [R]	Rep. Karlee Macer [D]	Rep. Matt Pierce [D]	Rep. David Ober [R]
Sen. Mark Messmer [R]	Sen. Jean Leising [R]	Sen. Eric Koch [R]	Sen. Mark Stoops [D]

2017-04-05 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 47 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2017-03-23 - Senate - Senate - Committee Vote (Y: 7 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-21 - House - House - Third reading (Y: 93 N: 0 NV: 4 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2017-02-15 - House - House - Committee Vote (Y: 12 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-04-12	House	Public Law 33
2017-04-12	House	Signed by the Governor
2017-04-11	Senate	Signed by the President of the Senate
2017-04-10	Senate	Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2017-04-06	Senate	Returned to the House without amendments
2017-04-06	House	Signed by the Speaker
2017-04-05	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 403: yeas 47, nays 0
2017-04-04	Senate	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2017-03-27	Senate	Senator Stoops added as cosponsor
2017-03-27	Senate	Senator Koch added as third sponsor
2017-03-23	Senate	Committee report: do pass, adopted
2017-02-23	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities
2017-02-22	House	Referred to the Senate
2017-02-21	House	Senate sponsors: Senators Messmer and Leising
2017-02-21	House	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 186: yeas 93, nays 0
2017-02-20	House	Amendment #1 (Ober) prevailed; voice vote
2017-02-20	House	Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
2017-02-16	House	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2017-02-07	House	Representative Ober added as coauthor
2017-02-07	House	Representative Speedy removed as coauthor
2017-02-06	House	Representatives Macer and Pierce added as coauthors
2017-01-24	House	Representative Speedy added as coauthor
2017-01-24	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications
2017-01-24	House	Authored by Representative Negele

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1626/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/9/4/6/6/9466565c/HB1626.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/4/b/c/c/4bcc2f34/HB1626.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/5/a/4/b/5a4bee97/HB1626.02.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/0/0/2/8/0028437a/HB1626.02.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/8/4/8/b/848b82e0/HB1626.03.ENGH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/6/e/1/9/6e19b943/HB1626.03.ENGH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/4/d/c/f4dc8b71/HB1626.04.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/b/3/b/db3b1078/HB1626.04.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/1/f/a/7/1fa7cc12/HB1626.05.ENRS.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/0/1/e/301e1eea/HB1626.01.INTR.00.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/1/7/2/f1728465/HB1626.186.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/1/1/2/6/11265282/HB1626.03.ENGH.00.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/0/1/a/7/01a70e98/HB1626.403.pdf