Bill Text: CA AB2369 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Broadband: fixed wireless study: Little Hoover Commission.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-16 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB2369 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB2369-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2369

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Introduced by Assembly Member Jim Patterson

February 12, 2024

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An act to add and repeal Section 249 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to communications.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2369, as introduced, Jim Patterson. Broadband: fixed wireless study: Little Hoover Commission.

Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including telephone corporations.

Existing law establishes the Milton Marks “Little Hoover” Commission on California State Government Organization and Economy to promote economy, efficiency, and improved service in the transaction of the public business in the various departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of the executive branch of the state government.

This bill would require the Little Hoover Commission to conduct a study on the use of fixed wireless and other technologies to bridge the digital divide. The bill would require the Little Hoover Commission, on or before January 1, 2027, to submit a report to the Legislature with the commission’s recommendations based on the study.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 249 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read:

249.

 (a) The Milton Marks “Little Hoover” Commission on California State Government Organization and Economy shall conduct a study on the use of fixed wireless and other technologies to bridge the digital divide.

(b) On or before January 1, 2027, the Little Hoover commission shall submit a report to the Legislature with the commission’s recommendations based on the study conducted pursuant to subdivision (a).

(c) (1) A report to be submitted pursuant to subdivision (b) shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.

(2) Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, this section is repealed on January 1, 2028.