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SB 1618 Telework Promotion and Broadband Assistance, Office of, and Broadband Advisory Council; expiration.

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

SUMMARY AS PASSED:

Office of Telework Promotion and Broadband Assistance; Broadband Advisory Council; expiration. Extends the expiration of the Office of Telework Promotion and Broadband Assistance from July 1, 2019, to July 1, 2021. The bill also repeals the expiration of the Broadband Advisory Council, and alters and expands from 14 to 17 its total membership. This bill is identical to HB 2541.

SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE:

Broadband Advisory Council; appointments. Increases from 14 to 17 the total membership of the Broadband Advisory Council by adding a member of the Senate and two additional nonlegislative members, one to represent a wireless service authority and one to represent the Virginia, Maryland and Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Broadband Advisory Council; appointments; expiration. Increase from 14 to 16 the total membership of the Broadband Advisory Council by adding two additional nonlegislative members, one to represent the Friends of Municipal Broadband and one to represent the Virginia, Maryland and Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives. The bill removes the Secretary of Technology from the Council and adds the Secretary of Administration. The bill also extends the expiration of the Council from July 1, 2020, to July 1, 2021.