Bill Text: TX SB1117 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to entities that provide video services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-22 - Postponed 6/1/23 10:00 AM [SB1117 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1117-Comm_Sub.html
By: Hancock | S.B. No. 1117 | |
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relating to entities that provide video services. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 66.002(2) and (10), Utilities Code, are | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(2) "Cable service" is defined as set forth in 47 | ||
U.S.C. Section 522(6). The term does not include any video | ||
programming accessed via a service that enables users to access | ||
content, information, e-mail, or other services offered over the | ||
Internet, including streaming content. | ||
(10) "Video service" means video programming services | ||
provided through wireline facilities located at least in part in | ||
the public right-of-way without regard to delivery technology, | ||
including Internet protocol technology. The term [ |
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does not include: | ||
(A) any video service provided by a commercial | ||
mobile service provider as defined in 47 U.S.C. Section 332(d); | ||
(B) direct-to-home satellite services, as | ||
defined in 47 U.S.C. Section 303(v), that are transmitted from a | ||
satellite directly to a customer's premises without using or | ||
accessing a portion of the public right-of-way; or | ||
(C) any video programming accessed via a service | ||
that enables users to access content, information, e-mail, or other | ||
services offered over the Internet, including streaming content. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |