Key Votes
HB 129 - Regulates Competition Between Local Government and Private Business - Key Vote
North Carolina Key Votes
Hugh Blackwell voted Yea (Concurrence Vote) on this legislation.
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Stages
- May 21, 2011 Became Law Without Governor's Signature
- May 5, 2011 House Concurrence Vote Passed
- May 3, 2011 Senate Bill Passed
- Feb. 16, 2011 Introduced
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Legislation - Became Law Without Governor's Signature (Executive) - May 21, 2011
Legislation - Concurrence Vote Passed (House) (84-32) - May 5, 2011 (Key vote)
Title: Regulates Competition Between Local Government and Private Business
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to concur with Senate amendments and pass a bill that establishes certain rules and regulations for city-owned telecommunications service providers.
Highlights:
- Requires all city-owned communications service providers to perform all of the following (Sec. 1):
- Comply with all local, state, and federal laws and regulations;
- Limit the provision of communications services to an area within the corporate limits of the city providing the service; and
- Provide nondiscriminatory access to private communications service providers on a first-come, first-serve basis, including rights-of-way, poles, and conduits owned, leased, or operated by the city unless the facilities have insufficient capacity for access.
- Prohibits all city-owned communications service providers from doing any of the following (Sec. 1):
- Directly or indirectly withhold or delay the provision of utility services;
- Require any person to use or subscribe to any communications service provided by the city-owned provider;
- Air advertisements or other promotions for the city-owned communications service on a public, educational, or governmental access channel if the city requires another communications service provider to carry the channel;
- Use city resources not allocated to the city-owned communications service to promote the city-owned service in comparison to private services;
- Subsidize the provision of communications services with funds from any other non-communications service or other revenue source; or
- Price any communications service below the cost of providing the service.
- Requires city-owned communications services to comply with open bidding procedures to provide service to customers outside the service area of the city (Sec. 1).
Legislation - Bill Passed (Senate) (39-10) - May 3, 2011 (Key vote)
Title: Regulates Competition Between Local Government and Private Business
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that establishes certain rules and regulations for city-owned telecommunications service providers.
Highlights:
- Requires all city-owned communications service providers to perform all of the following (Sec. 1):
- Comply with all local, state, and federal laws and regulations;
- Limit the provision of communications services to an area within the corporate limits of the city providing the service; and
- Provide nondiscriminatory access to private communications service providers on a first-come, first-serve basis, including rights-of-way, poles, and conduits owned, leased, or operated by the city unless the facilities have insufficient capacity for access.
- Prohibits all city-owned communications service providers from doing any of the following (Sec. 1):
- Directly or indirectly withhold or delay the provision of utility services;
- Require any person to use or subscribe to any communications service provided by the city-owned provider;
- Air advertisements or other promotions for the city-owned communications service on a public, educational, or governmental access channel if the city requires another communications service provider to carry the channel;
- Use city resources not allocated to the city-owned communications service to promote the city-owned service in comparison to private services;
- Subsidize the provision of communications services with funds from any other non-communications service or other revenue source; or
- Price any communications service below the cost of providing the service.
- Requires city-owned communications services to comply with open bidding procedures to provide service to customers outside the service area of the city (Sec. 1).
Legislation - Introduced (House) - Feb. 16, 2011
Title: Regulates Competition Between Local Government and Private Business
Sponsors
- Marilyn Avila (NC - R)
- Becky Carney (NC - D)
- Julia Craven Howard (NC - R)
- William L. Wainwright (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
Co-sponsors
- John M. Blust (NC - R)
- James L. 'Jamie' Boles Jr. (NC - R)
- William D. Brisson (NC - D)
- Larry R. Brown (NC - R) (Out Of Office)
- Justin P. Burr (NC - R)
- George G. Cleveland (NC - R)
- Jeffrey Lynn 'Jeff' Collins (NC - R)
- William A. 'Bill' Current Sr. (NC - R) (Out Of Office)
- Joseph Nelson Dollar (NC - R)
- John Faircloth (NC - R)
- Elmer Floyd (NC - D)
- Phillip D. Frye (NC - R) (Out Of Office)
- Mitch Gillespie (NC - R) (Out Of Office)
- Charles Graham (NC - D)
- Mike Hager (NC - R)
- Dewey Lewis Hill (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- John W. 'Bill' Hurley (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Dan W. Ingle (NC - R) (Out Of Office)
- Linda P. Johnson (NC - R)
- Edward 'Ed' Jones (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Carolyn H. Justice (NC - R) (Out Of Office)
- Richard D. 'Ric' Killian (NC - R) (Out Of Office)
- James H. Langdon Jr. (NC - R)
- Stephen A. LaRoque (NC - R) (Out Of Office)
- Marvin Willis Lucas Jr. (NC - D)
- Daniel Francis 'Danny' McComas (NC - R) (Out Of Office)
- Patricia 'Pat' McElraft (NC - R)
- William C. 'Bill' McGee (NC - R) (Out Of Office)
- Chuck McGrady (NC - R)
- Henry M. 'Mickey' Michaux Jr. (NC - D)
- Tim D. Moffitt (NC - R)
- Rodney W. Moore (NC - D)
- Timothy K. 'Tim' Moore (NC - R)
- Garland E. Pierce (NC - D)
- Gaston L. Pridgen (NC - R) (Out Of Office)
- Ruth C. Samuelson (NC - R)
- Timothy L. 'Tim' Spear (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Edgar V. Starnes (NC - R)
- Sarah S. Stevens (NC - R)
- Thomas Roger West (NC - R)
- Michael H. Wray (NC - D)
