ONE HUNDRED NINTH LEGISLATURE - FIRST SESSION - 2025
COMMITTEE STATEMENT
LB666
Hearing Date: Tuesday February 11, 2025
Committee On: Transportation and Telecommunications
Introducer: Storer
One Liner: Change provisions relating to duties of the Public Service Commission under the Rural
Communications Sustainability Act
Roll Call Vote - Final Committee Action:
Advanced to General File
Vote Results:
Aye: 8 Senators Moser, Ballard, Bosn, Brandt, DeBoer, Fredrickson,
Guereca, Storer
Nay:
Absent:
Present Not Voting:
Testimony:
Proponents: Representing:
Senator Tanya Storer Opening Presenter
Bachtiyer Kholmatov Pinpoint Communications and Nebraska Rural
Broadband Association
Tip O'Neill Nebraska Telecommunications Association
Andy Pollock Nebraska Rural Broadband Alliance
Opponents: Representing:
Neutral: Representing:
Cullen Robbins Nebraska Public Service Commission
* ADA Accommodation Written Testimony
Summary of purpose and/or changes:
Section 1 - Amends section 86-1505 – Broadband deployment program
After a granting agency makes a final payment of public funds, competitive providers can request that the Public
Service Commission (PSC) expeditiously determine whether they can provide telecommunications carrier obligations
and carrier of last resort obligations in the deployment project area. If the PSC finds that it can, it shall relieve the
local incumbent carrier of such obligations, coordinate with the FCC to determine whether Nebraska Universal
Service Fund (NUSF) support should be transferred from the incumbent carrier to the competitive carrier, and make
further determinations regarding NUSF allocations.
Committee Statement: LB666
Transportation and Telecommunications Committee
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Mike Moser, Chairperson
Committee Statement: LB666
Transportation and Telecommunications Committee
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