Oklahoma 2022 Regular Session

Oklahoma House Bill HB1132 Latest Draft

Bill / Enrolled Version Filed 04/27/2022

                            An Act 
ENROLLED HOUSE 
BILL NO. 1132 	By: Phillips of the House 
 
   and 
 
  Leewright of the Senate 
 
 
 
 
 
 
An Act relating to telecommunications; amending 17 
O.S. 2021, Section 139.108, which relates to OneNet 
and the Oklahoma Government Telecommunications 
Network; deleting certain service requirement 
restricting Oklahoma Corporation Commission to only 
use OneNet as provider; and deleting definition. 
 
 
 
 
SUBJECT: Telecommunications 
 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA: 
 
SECTION 1.    AMENDATORY     17 O.S. 2021, 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 se rvice. 
 
B.  No provider of Internet serv ice 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 s ervice 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 OneNe t facilities is hereby  ENR. H. B. NO. 1132 	Page 2 
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 damag es.  The Attorney 
General shall be respo nsible 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 submi tted pursuant 
to subsection (h) of Sectio n 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). 
  ENR. H. B. NO. 1132 	Page 3 
Passed the House of Representat ives the 15th day of February, 
2022. 
 
 
 
  
 	Presiding Officer of the House 
 	of Representatives 
 
 
Passed the Senate the 26th day of April, 2022. 
 
 
 
  
 	Presiding Officer of the Senate 
 
 
 
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR 
Received by the Office of the Governor this ____ ________________ 
day of ___________________, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M. 
By: _________________________________ 
Approved by the Governor of the State of Oklahoma this _____ ____ 
day of ___________________, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M . 
 
 
 	_________________________________ 
 	Governor of the State of Oklahoma 
 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE 
Received by the Office of the Secretary of State this __________ 
day of ___________________, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M. 
By: _________________________________