Indiana Senate Bill 356 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 11-2)
Status: Engrossed on February 7 2018 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-02-12 - First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications
Pending: House Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [PDF]

Broadband grants for unserved areas. Authorizes the office of community and rural affairs (office) to award grants to qualified broadband providers in connection with qualified broadband projects involving the deployment of infrastructure to provide qualified broadband service in unserved areas in Indiana. Defines "qualified broadband service" as a connection to the Internet at an average speed of at least ten 10 megabits per second downstream and at least one megabit per second upstream, regardless of the technology used. Defines an "unserved area" as a geographic area in Indiana in which there is not at least one provider of terrestrial broadband

Broadband grants for unserved areas. Authorizes the office of community and rural affairs (office) to award grants to qualified broadband providers in connection with qualified broadband projects involving the deployment of infrastructure to provide qualified broadband service in unserved areas in Indiana. Defines "qualified broadband service" as a connection to the Internet at an average speed of at least ten 10 megabits per second downstream and at least one megabit per second upstream, regardless of the technology used. Defines an "unserved area" as a geographic area in Indiana in which there is not at least one provider of terrestrial broadband

Sen. Erin Houchin [R]	Sen. Eric Koch [R]	Sen. Michael Delph [R]	Sen. Jean Leising [R]
Sen. Mark Messmer [R]	Sen. James Tomes [R]	Sen. Lonnie Randolph [D]	Sen. Dennis Kruse [R]
Sen. Greg Taylor [D]	Sen. Susan Glick [R]	Sen. Travis Holdman [R]	Rep. Sharon Negele [R]
Rep. David Ober [R]

2018-02-06 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 48 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2018-02-01 - Senate - Senate - Committee Vote (Y: 9 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-12	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities, Energy and Telecommunications
2018-02-07	Senate	Referred to the House
2018-02-06	Senate	Senators Glick and Holdman added as coauthors
2018-02-06	Senate	Senators Kruse and Taylor G added as coauthors
2018-02-06	Senate	Cosponsor: Representative Ober
2018-02-06	Senate	House sponsor: Representative Negele
2018-02-06	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 182: yeas 48, nays 0
2018-02-06	Senate	Pursuant to Senate Rule 35 (c); technical correction committee report adopted
2018-02-05	Senate	Senator Randolph added as coauthor
2018-02-05	Senate	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2018-02-01	Senate	Senators Delph, Leising, Messmer, Tomes added as coauthors
2018-02-01	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2018-01-04	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Utilities
2018-01-04	Senate	Authored by Senators Houchin and Koch

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/356/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/2/4/1/f/241f9d11/SB0356.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/7/7/2/77725b48/SB0356.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/a/2/e/4/a2e489a5/SB0356.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/0/4/7/6/0476f3f8/SB0356.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/c/d/e/3cde3f89/SB0356.03.COMS.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/b/1/f/db1fde3b/SB0356.01.INTR.00.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/5/1/9/d/519dfb1a/SB0356.182.pdf