LCO No. 1036 1 of 1
General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 73
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 1036
Referred to Committee on ENERGY AND TECHNOLOGY
Introduced by:
SEN. SAMPSON, 16
th Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING THIRD-PARTY NONPROFIT COMMUNITY
ACCESS PROVIDERS AND MUNICIPAL PROGRAMMING.
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 1
nonprofit community access provider to, upon request from any town 2
within its service territory, provide written consent for the town to: 3
(1) Operate education and government public access channels in 4
that town; and 5
(2) Engage freely and directly with the community antenna 6
television company providing services in such town to use their 7
headend equipment for dissemination of town-specific community 8
access programming on such channels. 9
Statement of Purpose:
To require third-party nonprofit community access providers to
provide written consent for towns to conduct certain activities
regarding education and government public access and community
access programming.