File Code: Commercial Law - Generally
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 571
- Sponsored By:
-
Senators Dorman, Teitelbaum, DeGrange, and Astle
- Entitled:
-
Internet Consumers' Bill of Rights
Requiring specified cable operators to provide broadband Internet
access transport services to any requesting Internet service provider
on specified terms and conditions; prohibiting specified restrictions
on content by a cable operator; allowing specified persons to enforce
the provisions of the Act through a civil action seeking specified
remedies; allowing a local franchising authority to enforce the
provisions of the Act in a specified manner; etc.
Senate Action
- 2/4
- First Reading Finance
- 2/7
- Hearing 3/7 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/23
- Unfavorable Report by Finance
House Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Arthur Dorman, District 21
- Senator John C. Astle, District 30
- Senator James E. DeGrange, Sr., District 32
- Senator Leonard H. Teitelbaum, District 19
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ARBITRATION -see also- MEDIATION
- CABLE TELEVISION
- CIVIL ACTIONS -see also- SMALL CLAIMS
- COMPUTERS
- CONSUMER PROTECTION -see also- UNFAIR TRADE PRACTICES
- COUNTIES -see also- CHARTERED COUNTIES; CODE COUNTIES
- FRANCHISES
- MEDIATION -see also- ARBITRATION
- TELECOMMUNICATIONS -see also- TELEPHONES
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Commercial Law
- (
11-1501 ,
11-1502 ,
11-1503 ,
11-1504
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered
