Okla. Senate Panel Clears Electric Co-op Bills
Two Oklahoma bills meant to empower rural electric cooperatives to provide broadband cleared the Senate Business, Commerce and Tourism Committee at a livestreamed hearing Thursday. The panel voted 11-0 for HB-3835 setting maximum pole-attachment rates when cooperatives and communications companies…
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can’t agree to a negotiated rate. “All parties are giving up something,” sponsor Sen. Brent Howard (R) told the committee. “None of them are real happy about it, but none of them are against it.” The committee later voted 11-0 for HB-1123 prohibiting class-action lawsuits by landowners against companies seeking to expand usage of easements for broadband. On Wednesday in Kentucky, the House voted 73-22 and the Senate voted 20-14 to override a partial veto by Gov. Andy Beshear (D) of HB-315. Beshear objected to an emergency clause in the bill to set up a state broadband office with $300 million from the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act (see 2204120040).