Bill Amendment: TX HB1 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature
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Bill Title: General Appropriations Bill.
Status: 2023-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB1 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1-House_Amendment_H_2_98-Flores.html
Bill Title: General Appropriations Bill.
Status: 2023-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB1 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1-House_Amendment_H_2_98-Flores.html
Amend CSHB 1 (house committee report) in Article I of the bill by adding the following appropriately numbered provision following the bill pattern appropriations for Fiscal Programs-Comptroller of Public Accounts (page I-30):
____. Broadband Equity Report. Contingent on the enactment and becoming law of HB 9 or similar legislation of the 88th Legislature, Regular Session, 2023, relating to the expansion of broadband access and broadband infrastructure development, the broadband development office shall conduct a study of disparities in broadband access across the state. The office shall present to each member of the legislature a report of the office's findings on the disparities not later than September 1, 2024. The broadband development office may use money appropriated for Strategy C.1.1, Texas BDO Administration for the purposes of the study and report.
