Jeff Cason voted Nay (Concurrence Vote) on this Legislation.
Title: Amends the Government Code and Utilities Code to Establish a Modernized Pole Attachment Regime
Signed by Governor Greg Abbott
Title: Amends the Government Code and Utilities Code to Establish a Modernized Pole Attachment Regime
Vote to concur with senate amendments and pass a bill that amends the Government Code and Utilities Code to establish a modernized pole attachment regime.
Amends the Government Code and Utilities Code to establish a modernized pole attachment regime that applies to Texas’ electric cooperatives and promotes consistency, transparency, and fairness in the deployment of broadband services (Sec. 1).
Establishes the Texas Broadband Pole Replacement Program and Fund to speed up the deployment of broadband services to individuals living in rural areas by reimbursing a portion of eligible pole replacement costs incurred by pole owners or providers of qualifying broadband services (Sec. 1).
Requires the Comptroller of public accounts to make a one-time transfer to the aforementioned fund from money received from the federal government from the Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund (Sec. 1).
Title: Amends the Government Code and Utilities Code to Establish a Modernized Pole Attachment Regime
Title: Amends the Government Code and Utilities Code to Establish a Modernized Pole Attachment Regime
Title: Amends the Government Code and Utilities Code to Establish a Modernized Pole Attachment Regime