General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 391
January Session, 2017 LCO No. 1536
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Referred to Committee on ENERGY AND TECHNOLOGY
Introduced by:
SEN. HARTLEY, 15th Dist.
General Assembly
Proposed Bill No. 391
January Session, 2017
LCO No. 1536
*01536*
Referred to Committee on ENERGY AND TECHNOLOGY
Introduced by:
SEN. HARTLEY, 15th Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING MUNICIPALLY OPERATED EDUCATION AND GOVERNMENT PUBLIC ACCESS CHANNELS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
That the general statutes be amended to require any third-party nonprofit community access provider to, upon request from any town within its service territory, provide written consent for the town to:
(1) Operate education and government public access channels in that town; and
(2) Engage freely and directly with the community antenna television company providing services in such town to use their headend equipment for dissemination of town-specific community access programming on such channels.
Statement of Purpose:
To expand municipally operated education and government public access channels.