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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021)
HOUSE BILL 1124 By: Phillips
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to rural broadband; requiring the
Corporation Commission promulgate rules and
procedures for establishment of the State Broadband
Deployment Grant Program; requiring development of
competitive grant program to award funding to expand
broadband access; requiring Commission to look at
other state's best practices to facilitate framework
of Program; creating the State Broadba nd Deployment
Grant Program Revolving Fund; providing for
codification; and providing an effective date .
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 139.204 of Title 17, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. The Corporation Commission with the participation and advice
of the Rural Broadband Expansion Council shall promulgate rules and
procedures for the establishment of the State Broadband Deployment
Grant Program. The State Broadband Deployment Grant P rogram shall
include development of a competitive grant program to award funding
to applicants seeking to expand access to broadband internet service
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in this state. The Commission and Council shall look at best
practices in other states to help facilitate the framework of the
Program.
B. There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving
fund for the Corporation Commission to be d esignated the "State
Broadband Deployment Grant Program Fund ". The fund shall be a
continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations, and shall
consist of all monies designated for deposit to said fund. All
monies accruing to the credit of said fun d are hereby appropriated
and may be budgeted and shall be expended by the Corpora tion
Commission for the purpose of awarding grants by and through the
Rural Broadband Expansion Council , pursuant to subsection A of this
section, to applicants seeking expand access to broadband internet
service in this state.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2021.
58-1-6493 JBH 12/31/20