Bill Text: HI HB1262 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Broadband Service Providers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-12-11 - Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. [HB1262 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-HB1262-Introduced.html
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THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2023 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to broadband service providers.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1.
The legislature finds that the Federal Communications Commission
announced its decision and order to service providers that it would sunset the requirement
to file broadband deployment information using the Form 477 filing system as of
December 31, 2022. The collection of
block-level fixed broadband data has been discontinued. Facilities-based providers of fixed and mobile
internet access service are no longer required to submit block-level broadband
deployment data in the Form 477 filing interface and broadband availability
data in the broadband data collection system. Now, providers need only to submit broadband
availability data in the broadband data collection system.
The purpose of this Act is to repeal the
requirement for broadband service providers in the State to submit census-block
level informational reports, for consistency with the December 2022 Federal
Communications Commission requirement.
SECTION 3. Section 440J-1,
Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by deleting the definitions of "broadband
access or broadband service", "broadband infrastructure", and
"broadband speed threshold".
"["Broadband access or
broadband service" means an "always-on" service that includes
but is not limited to computer processing capabilities, information provision,
and computing interactivity with data transport, enabling end users to access
the Internet and use a variety of applications at minimum speeds established by
the Federal Communications Commission.
"Broadband
infrastructure" means the medium used to provide broadband access or
broadband service, including fiber optic cable, copper cable, coaxial cable,
and wireless media, such as satellite communications, wi-fi, and worldwide
interoperability for microwave access.
"Broadband speed
threshold" means the highest speed threshold defined or established in the
most recent broadband progress report issued by the Federal Communications
Commission to Congress.]"
SECTION 3. Section 440J-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"[[]§440J-2[]]
Informational reports. [(a) Beginning on March 1, 2013, and on every
March 1 thereafter, every provider, except for commercial mobile radio service
providers, shall file with the department, in a form as prescribed by the
director, separate reports for each county that include, over the most recent
thirty-day period and without any other personal or private information, the
following:
(1) Broadband
access availability aggregated at the census-block level and detailed as a
percentage of households, addresses, or tax map key parcels that cannot be
serviced in a census-block at the broadband speed threshold; and
(2) The monthly
price charged for the broadband service if purchased individually without any
discounts.
(b)] Beginning on March 1, 2013, and on every
March 1 thereafter, commercial mobile radio service providers shall file with
the department data and information that is the same as and not inconsistent
with information filed with the Federal Communications Commission."
SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
DCCA; Broadband Service Providers; Informational Reports
Description:
Repeals
the requirement for broadband service providers to submit census-block level
reports to the department of commerce and consumer affairs, for consistency
with new Federal Communications Commission requirements.
The summary description
of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is
not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
