Cal. lawmakers resurrected and amended unsuccessful broadband acc...
Cal. lawmakers resurrected and amended unsuccessful broadband access and universal service legislation from 2005. SB-850 would declare that state universal service policy should address universal broadband service throughout Cal., and would authorize the state’s chief information officer to use…
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Digital Divide Account money to develop a strategy for universal broadband. The new version was shorn of a provision that would have directed the PUC to determine which areas of the state lack sufficient broadband access and which lacked broadband competition. The universal service bill (AB-326) would prohibit any diversion, loan, appropriation or allocation of money in the state universal service fund for any purpose or program other than those authorized. The bill would require that any prior diversions for other purposes be repaid by March 2007. The reintroduced bill was stripped of a provision that would have restructured the universal service fund as a trust account.