One Hundred Ninth Legislature - First Session - 2025
Introducer€s Statement of Intent
LB4
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Chairperson: Senator Mike Moser
Committee: Transportation and Telecommunications
Date of Hearing: February 11, 2025
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The following constitutes the reasons for this bill and the purposes which are sought to be
accomplished thereby:
LB 4 establishes the Telecommunications Exchange Deregulation Act. This bill allows incumbent local
exchange carriers to seek relief from carrier of last resort obligations through the deregulation of exchanges
where sufficient voice competition exists. Carriers are ineligible to receive funds from the Nebraska Universal
Service Fund in deregulated exchanges but remain bound by the terms of any grant award received to provide
voice or broadband service. The authority to make determinations regarding deregulation of an exchange rests
with the Public Service Commission and deregulation is at the Commissions discretion unless an exchange has
a population of over 100,000 inhabitants and is fully served by at least three carriers.
The bill makes no changes to carriers obligations to provide 911 service or to other obligations imposed as a
result of a carriers receipt of authority to operate as a telecommunications provider in the state of Nebraska.
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Principal Introducer:________________________________
Senator Carolyn Bosn
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