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2019 SESSION

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SB 1317 Telecommunications companies; incentives, provision of wireless broadband services.

Introduced by: John S. Edwards | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Incentives for telecommunications companies; provision of wireless broadband services. Directs the Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission to award at least $10 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. The bill also establishes a sales tax exemption, which would be phased in over four years, for property sold or leased to a telecommunications company and used directly in the rendition of its public service.

FULL TEXT

• 01/07/19  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102885D  pdf

HISTORY

• 01/07/19  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102885D
• 01/07/19  Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
• 01/14/19  Senate: Rereferred from Commerce and Labor (11-Y 0-N)
• 01/14/19  Senate: Rereferred to Finance
• 01/22/19  Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Finance (9-Y 7-N)