HB 1134 - AS INTRODUCED

2016 SESSION

16-2218

06/10

HOUSE BILL 1134

AN ACT relative to open access to broadband infrastructure.

SPONSORS: Rep. Abramson, Rock. 20; Rep. McConnell, Ches. 12

COMMITTEE: Science, Technology and Energy

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ANALYSIS

This bill requires municipalities to permit broadband Internet service providers to install certain equipment along existing public rights of way.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

16-2218

06/10

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen

AN ACT relative to open access to broadband infrastructure.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1  New Paragraph; Broadband Access.  Amend RSA 38:38 by inserting after paragraph II the following new paragraph:

III.  A municipality shall permit broadband Internet service providers to install cable or fiber optic lines along existing roads, highways, bridges, telephone poles, water, or sewer lines.  No municipality shall charge such broadband Internet service provider more that the cost of  installation and maintenance of such lines.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.