Maryland House Bill 1313 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)
Status: Introduced on February 10 2017 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2017-03-16 - Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Requiring a specified telephone company to provide and maintain wired broadband service or pay the cost of providing wired broadband service to the Rural Broadband Assistance Fund; requiring the Public Service Commission, to the extent authorized under federal law, to cooperate with the Federal Communications Commission on efforts to promote universal wired broadband access in the State; and requiring the Commission to make a specified annual report and recommendations to the General Assembly on or before January 31 each year.

Public Utilities - Telephone Companies - Wired Broadband (Wired Broadband Act of 2017)

Del. Mark Fisher [R]	Del. Jerry Clark [R]	Del. Seth Howard [R]	Sen. Johnny Mautz [R]
Del. Warren Miller [R]	Del. Matt Morgan [R]	Del. Theodore Sophocleus [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-03-16	House	Unfavorable Report by Economic Matters
2017-03-02	House	Hearing 3/02 at 1:00 p.m.
2017-02-10	House	First Reading Economic Matters

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/HB1313?ys=2017rs
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb1313f.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/fnotes/bil_0003/hb1313.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/votes_comm/hb1313_ecm.pdf