Virginia Senate Bill 530 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 13 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-12-02 - Left in Local Government
Pending: Senate Local Government Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Cable franchises. Provides that local ordinances to adopt a cable franchise shall require that a cable operator make service available in areas where the average occupied residential household density is not less than 20 occupied residential dwelling units per mile as measured from the physical address of the nearest dwelling or building at which service from the provider is available. The current statute requires a standard of not less than 30 occupied residential dwelling units per mile as measured from the nearest technically feasible point on the cable operator's active cable system.

Cable franchises; service availability in certain areas.

Sen. Richard Stuart [R]

2016-02-09 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2017 in Local Government (13-Y 0-N) (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-12-02	Senate	Left in Local Government
2016-02-09	Senate	Continued to 2017 in Local Government (13-Y 0-N)
2016-01-13	Senate	Referred to Committee on Local Government
2016-01-13	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16103805D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
15	2	2108.22	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB530
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB530+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+S07C0039+SB0530