HB4001 HFAT Linville 3-2

Casto 3264

Delegate Linville moved to amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting therefor a new title, to read as follows:

Eng. House Bill No. 4001 -- H. B. 4001 -- A BILL to amend and reenact §31G-1A-7 of the Code of the West Virginia, 1931, as amended; to amend said code by adding thereto a new section, designated §31G-1A-8; to amend said code by adding thereto a new section, designated §31G-3-5; to amend said code by adding thereto a new section, designated §31G-4-2a; to amend said code by adding thereto a new article, designated §31G-7-1, §31G-7-2, §31G-7-3, §31G-7-4 and §31G-7-5; and to amend said code by adding thereto a new article, designated §31G-8-1, §31G-8-2 §31G-8-3 and §31G-8-4, all relating to certain provisions relating to broadband; adding certain provisions to the administration of the Broadband Development Fund, including regulating the disposal of grant funded assets; relating to creating the Broadband Carrier Neutral and Open Access Infrastructure Development Fund; providing for the administration of the fund, sources of funding for the fund, and the purposes for expenditures from the fund; authorizing expenditures from the fund from collections and pursuant to legislative appropriations; creating a process for the mapping of disturbances in rights of way; creating utility pole rights of way and easement mapping initiative; creating existing consumer protections for the Office of the Attorney General in coordination with the Office of Broadband and Department of Economic Development; establishing fees; providing for competitive access infrastructure; providing for credits; defining modems and other connection devices; defining competitive access infrastructure; defining eligible telecommunications carriers; defining the status of such; and providing for penalties where misrepresentation of eligible telecommunications carrier status occurs.

Adopted

Rejected