The Fla. legislature passed a bill (SB-2178) to create a new Digi...
The Fla. legislature passed a bill (SB-2178) to create a new Digital Divide Trust Fund within the Fla. Office of Technology. The bill sent to Gov. Jeb Bush (R) says money from the fund will be used to support…
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deployment of advanced telecom services statewide. The fund will get its money from appropriations, gifts, other donations and matching contributions from public- and private-sector entities and would terminate in mid-2007. The legislature also killed 3 other telecom bills: (1) HB-415/SB-1250, which would have required porn filters on all public Internet computers in libraries. (2) HB-995, which would have extended the sunset date of the universal service provisions in the state’s telecom statutes. They currently are to sunset July 1, 2004, and the bill would have extended that date by 2 years. The bill died because another telecom reform bill (SB-654), passed by the legislature last week, imposes universal service obligations on telcos through 2009. (3) HB-1211 and SB-438, that would have banned deceptive spam, given ISPs power to stop spam and set civil penalties.