HB1923
Broadband capacity; expands existing pilot program, municipal broadband authorities.
Summary
As Passed Both Chambers. Electric utilities; broadband capacity pilot program.
Expands an existing pilot program under which Dominion Energy and Appalachian Power are authorized to provide or make available broadband capacity to Internet service providers in areas of the Commonwealth that are unserved by broadband to include municipal Internet service providers. The current program is restricted to nongovernmental Internet service ... (More) providers. This bill is identical to SB 1334. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/10/2021 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101272D
- 01/10/2021 - House: Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce
- 01/14/2021 - House: Assigned L & C sub: Subcommittee #3
- 01/15/2021 - House: Impact statement from SCC (HB1923)
- 01/18/2021 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (11-Y 0-N)
- 01/19/2021 - House: Reported from Labor and Commerce (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/20/2021 - House: Read first time
- 01/21/2021 - House: Read second time and engrossed
- 01/22/2021 - House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 01/22/2021 - House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- 01/25/2021 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/25/2021 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/05/2021 - Senate: Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/2021 - Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor with amendments (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/2021 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/2021 - Senate: Read third time
- 02/18/2021 - Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/18/2021 - Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/18/2021 - Senate: Passed by temporarily
- 02/18/2021 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 02/18/2021 - Senate: Passed Senate with amendments (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/2021 - House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/22/2021 - House: Senate amendments agreed to by House (97-Y 1-N)
- 02/22/2021 - House: VOTE: Adoption (97-Y 1-N)
- 02/25/2021 - House: Enrolled
- 02/25/2021 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1923ER)
- 02/25/2021 - Senate: Signed by President
- 02/26/2021 - House: Impact statement from SCC (HB1923ER)
- 02/26/2021 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/01/2021 - House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 1, 2021
- 03/01/2021 - Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- 03/25/2021 - Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 356 (effective 7/1/21)
- 03/25/2021 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0356)
