Oklahoma 2022 2022 Regular Session

Oklahoma House Bill HB1132 Amended / Bill

Filed 02/24/2021

                     
 
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - FLOOR VERSION 
 
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 appl icable to the 
telecommunications network known 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 fe e or other charge 
for the support of universal service.   
 
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B.  No provider of Internet service or any company providing 
telecommunications services or its affiliate or subsidiary, may 
price such Internet service in an anticompetitive, discriminatory, 
or predatory manner or subsidize the price of Internet 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.  Fo r 
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. 
 
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON TECHNOLOGY, dated 02/24/2021 - DO 
PASS.