Tennessee Senate Bill 580 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on February 9 2021 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2021-03-23 - Deferred to Summer Study
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [PDF]

As introduced, authorizes a municipal energy authority whose principal office is located within a county with a population of 25,000 or less that has also been designated as a tier 3 or a tier 4 enhancement county to provide cable or internet service within the portion of the county that is outside of the authority’s electric system service area if the authority obtains the consent of each telephone cooperative, electric cooperative, and municipal or other governmental electric system in whose territory the authority will provide those services. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 36.

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 7, Chapter 36, relative to broadband services authorization.

Sen. Rusty Crowe [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-03-23	Senate	Deferred to Summer Study
2021-03-16	Senate	Placed on Senate Commerce and Labor Committee calendar for 3/23/2021
2021-03-16	Senate	Action deferred in Senate Commerce and Labor Committee to 3/23/2021
2021-03-09	Senate	Placed on Senate Commerce and Labor Committee calendar for 3/16/2021
2021-02-11	Senate	Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
2021-02-10	Senate	Introduced, Passed on First Consideration
2021-02-09	Senate	Filed for introduction

HB0821 (Crossfiled) 2021-02-20 - Assigned to s/c Business & Utilities Subcommittee

Type	Source
Summary	https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/Billinfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=SB0580&ga=112
Text	https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/112/Bill/SB0580.pdf
Supplement	https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/112/Fiscal/SB0580.pdf