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General Assembly Committee Bill No. 677
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 5932
Referred to Committee on ENERGY AND TECHNOLOGY
Introduced by:
(ET)
AN ACT CONCERNING TH E DELIVERY FORMAT OF C OMMUNITY
ACCESS PROGRAMMING.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) Each community antenna 1
television company and certified competitive video service provider, 2
as those terms are defined in section 16-1 of the general statutes, 3
operating in the state shall deliver to each of its subscribers any 4
community access programming in the same format as the primary 5
local broadcast signals each such subscriber receives, including, but 6
not limited to, high definition format, provided (1) such community 7
access programming is delivered to a community antenna television 8
company or certified competitive video service provider in such 9
format, and (2) this section shall not require a community antenna 10
television company or certified competitive video service provider to 11
upgrade the equipment of any community access programming 12
provider. 13
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Committee Bill No. 677
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Section 1 from passage New section
Statement of Purpose:
To require community antenna television companies and certified
competitive video service providers to deliver community access
programming in the same format as a subscriber receives primary local
broadcast signals.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline,
except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is
not underlined.]
Co-Sponsors: SEN. OSTEN, 19th Dist.
S.B. 677