NJ Assembly Passes Broadband Bill; 2 Other States Enact Laws
The New Jersey Assembly voted 70-0 Thursday for A-4808 to set up a broadband office within the state's Board of Public Utilities. The Senate introduced the identical bill, S-3086, that day. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) signed HB-74 Wednesday…
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to set up a broadband office in that state, while Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) signed a bill (HB-2438) Thursday to empower electric cooperatives to provide broadband (see 2010220015). Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D), meanwhile, signed an executive order Friday creating a Broadband Advisory Board in the Office of Information Technology to coordinate state broadband efforts. Polis also released a broadband report with recommendations on governance, mapping, funding and deployment. One is to consider “designating broadband as a utility within the state and managed as a regulated service.”