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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021)
HOUSE BILL 1132 By: Phillips
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to telecommunications; amending 17
O.S. 2011, Section 139.108, which relates to OneNet
and the Oklahoma Government Telecommunications
Network; deleting certain service requirement
restricting Corporation Commission to only use OneNet
as provider; deleting definition; and providing an
effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 17 O.S. 2011, Section 139.108, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 139.108. A. Except for the provisions of this section,
nothing in this act shall be construed as applicable to the
telecommunications network k nown as OneNet or to any other component
of the Oklahoma Government Telecommunications Network. Neither
OneNet nor any other component of the Oklahoma Government
Telecommunications Network shall be assessed any fee or other charge
for the support of unive rsal service.
B. No provider of Internet service or any company providing
telecommunications services or its affiliate or subsidiary, may
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price such Internet service in an anticompetitive, discriminatory,
or predatory manner or subsidize the price of Inte rnet service with
revenues received from other services. No governmental agency or
entity using or being eligible to use OneNet facilities may price
such Internet services in an anticompetitive or predatory manner.
Any governmental agency or entity using OneNet facilities is hereby
prohibited from reselling OneNet access directly to the general
public at any nonpublic site. Any company or individual damaged
from a violation of this subsection by a private company or
individual shall be entitled to treble damages. The Attorney
General shall be responsible for bringing an action for violation of
this section against a private company or individual.
C. The Corporation Commission shall not approve, endorse,
forward or file any application for reimbursement submitted pursuant
to subsection (h) of Section 254 of the Communications Act of 1934,
as amended, for transmission services requiring a circuit of T -1 or
greater capacity unless OneNet is the circuit provider. For
purposes of this subsection, "T-1" means a digital, one-million-
five-hundred-forty-four-thousand-bit (1.544 Mbit) circuit with
capacity sufficient to simultaneously transmit twenty -four (24)
voice or data channels at sixty -four thousand bits per second (64
Kbits/sec).
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SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2021.
58-1-7157 JBH 12/30/2020