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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 6778
January Session, 2025
LCO No. 3764
Referred to Committee on ENERGY AND TECHNOLOGY
Introduced by:
(ET)
AN ACT CONCERNING TELECOMMUNICATIONS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 16-330b of the general statutes is repealed and the 1
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2025): 2
(a) The Office of Policy and Management shall, in accordance with 3
sections 4d-90 and 4-67p and in consultation with other state agencies 4
deemed appropriate by the Secretary of the Office of Policy and 5
Management, develop and maintain an up-to-date broadband map, 6
with accompanying data, showing the availability and adoption of 7
broadband Internet access service, including broadband Internet 8
download and upload speeds, in the state. The Office of Policy and 9
Management [may] shall rely on credible and relevant data, as 10
determined by the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, 11
provided by broadband Internet access service providers, state agencies, 12
political subdivisions of the state and other third parties, including, but 13
not limited to, broadband Internet access service consumers, in the 14
development and maintenance of said map. The Secretary of the Office 15
of Policy and Management may employ outside consultants in the 16
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development and maintenance of said map. 17
(b) On or before December 1, 2022, and each year thereafter, the 18
Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall publish said up-19
to-date broadband map on the Office of Policy and Management's 20
Internet web site. 21
(c) (1) Each broadband Internet access service provider shall provide 22
the Office of Policy and Management, in a form and manner prescribed 23
by the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, with 24
information required to develop and maintain an up-to-date broadband 25
map showing the availability of broadband Internet access service and 26
subscription data by broadband Internet speed offered by such 27
provider. 28
(A) Such information may be submitted in the form of a labeled 29
shapefile that [shall include] includes (i) for each address or structure in 30
the state at which service is available from the broadband Internet access 31
service provider, the maximum advertised downstream bandwidth, 32
maximum advertised upstream bandwidth and transmission 33
technology, and (ii) for each area served by the broadband Internet 34
access service provider, provided such area is not larger than a census 35
block group, for each combination of advertised downstream and 36
upstream bandwidth of the service as sold and transmission technology, 37
the total number of connections and total number of consumer 38
connections. 39
(B) In prescribing the form and manner of the information submitted 40
pursuant to this subsection, the Secretary of the Office of Policy and 41
Management shall make reasonable efforts to conform with the 42
Broadband Deployment Accuracy and Technological Availability Act, 43
47 USC 641 et seq., as amended from time to time, the Federal 44
Communications Commission rules adopted thereunder and the 45
Federal Communications Commission's Form 477 filing process. 46
(2) Any information provided by a broadband Internet access service 47
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provider pursuant to this subsection shall be deemed a trade secret and 48
exempt from public disclosure pursuant to section 1-210. Pursuant to a 49
data sharing agreement, the Office of Policy and Management may 50
provide such information to the Department of Energy and 51
Environmental Protection, the Office of State Broadband and the 52
Commission for Educational Technology for the purposes of 53
administering the grant program and preparing the reports required 54
under section 16-330c, and shall not disclose such information to any 55
nongovernmental individual or entity, other than an outside consultant 56
employed pursuant to subsection (a) of this section or section 16-330c, 57
except: (A) In an aggregated form necessary to develop and maintain 58
the map and data pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, or (B) with 59
the permission of the broadband Internet access service provider. Any 60
contract or data-sharing agreement entered into by the Office of Policy 61
and Management with any other governmental [entities] entity or 62
outside [consultants] consultant shall include a confidentiality 63
agreement concerning the trade secret information obtained pursuant to 64
this subsection. 65
(d) Each state agency and political subdivision of the state shall 66
provide all information requested by the Office of Policy and 67
Management for the purpose of developing and maintaining an up-to-68
date broadband map. 69
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2025 16-330b
Statement of Purpose:
To revise a statute concerning an up-to-date broadband map of the state.
[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.]