María Elena Durazo
- Democratic
- Senator
- District 26
Author
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including telephone corporations. Existing law requires the commission to develop, implement, and administer the California Advanced Services Fund to encourage deployment of high-quality advanced communications services to all Californians that will promote economic growth, job creation, and the substantial social benefits of advanced information and communications technologies, as specified. Existing law establishes the Broadband Infrastructure Grant Account in the fund to approve funding for infrastructure projects that will provide broadband access to no less than 98% of California households in each consortia region, and establishes the Federal Funding Account in the fund to expeditiously connect unserved and underserved communities, as specified. The Get Connected California Act of 2024 would require the commission to ensure all deployment grant awardees, defined as all internet service providers that receive funding from the Broadband Infrastructure Grant Account and the Federal Funding Account within the California Advanced Services Fund, offer internet service that costs no more than $30 per month and meets certain minimum speed requirements, as specified. The bill would require a deployment grant awardee to allow any household in a project area, as defined, to switch to the above-described low-cost broadband service option in the billing cycle immediately following the household's enrollment in the low-cost broadband service option. The bill would not apply these requirements to applications submitted to the commission before January 1, 2025. The bill would make the above-described provisions severable. This bill would also require the commission, on or before January 1, 2025, to issue a draft resolution to award a total of at least $1,000,000,000 in project funding from the Federal Funding Account and the Broadband Infrastructure Grant Account. The bill would require the commission, on or before January 1, 2027, to adopt updated rules for the Federal Funding Account and the Broadband Infrastructure Grant Account, and related programs, to conform with each other in terms of project eligibility, applicant requirements, and eligible technologies, as provided. Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime. Because the above provisions would be part of the act and a violation of a commission action implementing this bill's requirements would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (June 26).
Re-referred to Com. on C. & C. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1407.) Ordered to the Assembly.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Read third time and amended.
Ordered to second reading.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1170.) (May 18).
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
Set for hearing May 18.
May 1 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Set for hearing May 1.
Set for hearing April 24.
April 24 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 710.) (April 12).
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
Set for hearing April 12.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| SB424 | HTML |
| 02/13/23 - Introduced | |
| 03/29/23 - Amended Senate | |
| 04/17/23 - Amended Senate | |
| 04/24/23 - Amended Senate | |
| 05/18/23 - Amended Senate | |
| 05/25/23 - Amended Senate | |
| 06/11/24 - Amended Assembly | |
| 07/02/24 - Amended Assembly |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 04/12/23- Senate Health | |
| 04/28/23- Senate Appropriations | |
| 05/18/23- Senate Appropriations | |
| 05/26/23- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 06/24/24- Assembly Communications and Conveyance |
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