Maryland House Bill 613 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-9)
Status: Introduced on February 4 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-02-18 - Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
Pending: House Economic Matters Committee
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 certain annual report and recommendations to the General Assembly on or before January 31 of each year.

Public Utilities - Telephone Companies - Wired Broadband (Wired Broadband Act of 2016)

Del. Mark Fisher [R]	Del. Angela Angel [D]	Del. Steven Arentz [R]	Del. Susan Aumann [R]
Del. Charles Barkley [D]	Del. Ned Carey [D]	Del. Diana Fennell [D]	Del. Cheryl Glenn [D]
Del. Seth Howard [R]	Del. Richard Impallaria [R]	Sen. Michael Jackson [D]	Sen. Benjamin Kramer [D]
Del. Mary Ann Lisanti [D]	Sen. Johnny Mautz [R]	Sen. Cory McCray [D]	Del. Warren Miller [R]
Del. Matt Morgan [R]	Del. Edith Patterson [D]	Del. Deb Rey [R]	Del. Shane Robinson [D]
Del. Carlos Sanchez [D]	Del. James Tarlau [D]	Del. Michael Vaughn [D]	Del. C.T. Wilson [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-18	House	Hearing 2/18 at 1:00 p.m.
2016-02-04	House	First Reading Economic Matters

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/HB0613?ys=2016rs
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2016RS/bills/hb/hb0613f.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2016RS/fnotes/bil_0003/hb0613.pdf