West Virginia Senate Bill 556 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-2)
Status: Introduced on March 18 2013 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2013-03-28 - On 2nd reading to Government Organization
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to clarify that the West Virginia Infrastructure and Jobs Development Councils public outreach and education efforts extend beyond unserved areas. The bill revises the councils guidelines on requests for funding assistance. The bill requires projects for broadband service involving the construction of a network meet the revised definition of broadband before being approved. The bill revises the criteria for funding assistance applications. The bill provides that projects to promote demand may be on a regional or statewide basis. The bill revises notice and posting requirements. The bill redefines certain terms.

Relating to broadband deployment projects

Sen. Bob Williams [D]	Sen. Robert Beach [D]	Del. Samuel Cann [D]	Sen. William Cole [R]
Sen. Mike Green [D]	Sen. Evan Jenkins [D]	Sen. Art Kirkendoll [D]	Sen. Herb Snyder [D]
Sen. Dave Sypolt [R]	Sen. Ron Stollings [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-03-28	Senate	On 2nd reading to Government Organization
2013-03-28	Senate	Read 1st time
2013-03-28	Senate	On 1st reading
2013-03-28	Senate	Immediate consideration
2013-03-28	Senate	Committee substitute reported, but first to Government Organization
2013-03-18	Senate	To Transportation and Infrastructure
2013-03-18	Senate	Introduced in Senate
2013-03-18	Senate	To Transportation and Infrastructure then Government Organization
2013-03-18	Senate	Filed for introduction

HB2979 (Same As) 2013-05-15 - Chapter 18, Acts, 2013

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
31	15C	10	Amended Code	Citation Text
31	15C	2	Amended Code	Citation Text
31	15C	8	Amended Code	Citation Text
31	15C	9	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=556&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb556%20intr.htm&yr=2013&sesstype=RS&i=556
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB556%20SUB1.htm&yr=2013&sesstype=RS&i=556