Virginia Senate Bill 536 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-12-04 - Left in Finance and Appropriations
Pending: Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Incentives for telecommunications companies; provision of wireless broadband services. Directs the Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission to award at least $50 million per year in grants to cover expenditures for the purchase and installation of wireless and broadband equipment to rural service areas in the Commonwealth. The bill defines "rural service areas" as any locality with a mean broadband download speed of less than 10 megabits per second, and a mean broadband upload speed of less than one megabit per second.

Incentives for telecommunications companies; provision of wireless broadband services.

Sen. John Edwards [D]

2020-02-04 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2021 in Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 2-N 1-A) (Y: 13 N: 2 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-20 - Senate - Senate: Rereferred from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-12-04	Senate	Left in Finance and Appropriations
2020-02-04	Senate	Continued to 2021 in Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 2-N 1-A)
2020-02-04	Senate	Committee amendments
2020-01-20	Senate	Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
2020-01-20	Senate	Rereferred from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
2020-01-07	Senate	Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
2020-01-07	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101837D

SB536 (Carry Over) 2020-02-04 - Continued to 2021 in Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 2-N 1-A)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
3	2	3108.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+sum+SB536
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+ful+SB536+hil
Amendment	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+amd+SB536ASC
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+oth+SB536F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+S02C0016+SB0536
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+S05C0150+SB0536