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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 58th Legislature (2022)
HOUSE BILL 3181 By: Phillips
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to rural broadband; amending 17 O.S.
2021, Section 139.203, which relates to requiring
submission of map data by public and private
entities; striking language creating pri vate
submission requirements; eliminating language
requiring certain evaluations by the R ural Broadband
Expansion Council; and providing an effective date .
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE ST ATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 17 O.S. 2021, Section 139.203, is
amended to read as follows :
Section 139.203 A. On or before October 31, 2021, and annually
thereafter, in accordance with the FCC Data Collection and
Methodology, private broadband service providers operating i n this
state and satellite-based broadband private providers that hav e been
designated as an eligible telecommunications carrier pursuant to 47
U.S.C., Section 214(e)(6) for any portion of Oklahoma, here inafter
referred to as "private providers", shall submit to the Oklahoma
Department of Commerce and the Rural Broadband Ex pansion Council the
broadband network area coverage map data the private providers are
required to submit to the Federal Communication s Commission pursuant
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to the federal Broadband Deploy ment Accuracy and Technological
Availability Act, 47 U.S.C., Section 641 et seq. The map da ta shall
be updated annually through a supplemental submission by the private
providers that reflects changes i n area coverage from the preceding
year. The Department is authorized to pro mulgate rules for the
collection of the broad band network area cover age map reports from
the private providers.
B. A. On or before October 31 of each year, OneNet, the Office
of Management and Enterprise Services and the Oklahoma D epartment of
Transportation, hereinafter referred to as "public entities", shall
submit to the Oklahoma Department of Commerce and the Rural
Broadband Expansion Council broadband network area coverage ma p data
of all assets and network coverage in the form at requested by the
Oklahoma Department of Commerce and the Council.
C. Private providers and p ublic entities shall disclose to the
Oklahoma Department of Commerce and the Rural Broadband Expansion
Council the properties they serve and the maximum adverti sed
download and upload speeds at which they provide any Internet
services to those properties, and shall be afforded by the Oklahoma
Department of Commerce and the Council a process to petition for
correction of potential inaccuracies in the map.
D. The reports and information require d to be disclosed
pursuant to this section by private providers shall remain
confidential pursuant to Section 24A.10 of Title 51 of the Oklahoma
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Statutes. The Council shal l determine the required submission
format of the data submitted under the provision s of this act. In
no instance shall private providers be require d to submit any data,
in substantive content or form or schedule, beyond or in advance of
the data described in subsection A of this section, or any data
containing customer information, such as names, addresses or account
numbers. The Department shall use a third party to collect the data
submitted by private providers under the provisions of this act.
The third party shall deliver data to the Department follo wing a
white label process to r emove information identifying specific
providers.
E. B. On or before December 1 of each year, the Department
Department of Commerce and the Council shall update the map re quired
by subsection G of Section 139.202 of Title 17 of the Oklahoma
Statutes this title using the data collected under the provisions of
this act in a manner that i dentifies the assets and service areas of
the public entities while displaying anonymized information, without
reference to any specific privat e provider, of the assets a nd
service areas of private providers.
F. After the FCC completes the national Broadb and Serviceable
Location Fabric and accompanying National Broadband Availability
Map, the Rural Broadband Expansion Council shall annually eval uate
whether the State of O klahoma needs to continue producing an
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annually updated statewide broadband map in acc ordance with the
provisions of this section.
SECTION 2. This act shall be come effective November 1, 2022.
58-2-8577 MJ 12/07/21