Bill Text: CT SB00391 | 2017 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: An Act Concerning Municipally Operated Education And Government Public Access Channels.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-19 - Referred to Joint Committee on Energy and Technology [SB00391 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2017-SB00391-Introduced.html

General Assembly

 

Proposed Bill No. 391

 

January Session, 2017

 

LCO No. 1536

 

*01536*

Referred to Committee on ENERGY AND TECHNOLOGY

 

Introduced by:

 

SEN. HARTLEY, 15th Dist.

 

AN ACT CONCERNING MUNICIPALLY OPERATED EDUCATION AND GOVERNMENT PUBLIC ACCESS CHANNELS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

That the general statutes be amended to require any third-party nonprofit community access provider to, upon request from any town within its service territory, provide written consent for the town to:

(1) Operate education and government public access channels in that town; and

(2) Engage freely and directly with the community antenna television company providing services in such town to use their headend equipment for dissemination of town-specific community access programming on such channels.

Statement of Purpose:

To expand municipally operated education and government public access channels.

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