Source: http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1999
Timestamp: 2018-02-18 20:25:23
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AB1999:v99#DOCUMENT
An act to amend Sections 53395.3.2, 61100, and 61105 of, and to add Article 12 (commencing with Section 53167) to Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of, the Government Code, and to add Sections 10001.5, 12801.5, and 16461.10 to the Public Utilities Code, relating to local government.
AB 1999, as introduced, Chau. Local government: public broadband services.
(1) Existing law authorizes any municipal corporation to acquire, construct, own, operate, or lease any public utility, and provides that “public utility” for these purposes means to supply the inhabitants of that municipal corporation with specified services, including a means of communication. Existing law similarly authorizes a municipal utility district and a public utility district to acquire, construct, own, operate, control, or use works for supplying the inhabitants of the district with specified services, including a means of communication. Existing law, as described in more detail below, authorizes a community services district to construct, own, improve, maintain, and operate broadband facilities and to provide broadband services if certain conditions are met. Existing law also authorizes an infrastructure finance district to finance public facilities or projects that include broadband.
(2) The Community Services District Law authorizes the establishment of community services districts to provide various services to the geographic area within each district, including, among other things, if the district is unable to locate a private person or entity who is willing or able to provide broadband service, constructing, owning, improving, maintaining, and operating broadband facilities and providing broadband services. Existing law provides that if a community service district exercises this power and later a private person or entity is ready, willing, and able to acquire, construct, improve, maintain, and operate broadband facilities and to provide broadband services at a comparable cost and quality of service to what is provided by the district, then the district is required to either transfer title to the broadband facilities so constructed to the private entity at fair market value or to lease the operation of those broadband facilities at a fair market value to that private person or entity.
Existing law provides that the Mountain House Community Services District is not authorized to operate television, cable, or telecommunications systems except as provided for community services districts with respect to broadband services, as described above.
This bill would, for all districts except for the Mountain House Community Services District, broaden that authorization by removing the requirement that a district first determine that a private person or entity is unwilling or unable to provide broadband services before the district may contract, own, improve, and operate broadband facilities and provide broadband services. The bill would authorize a district to transfer title to the broadband facilities so constructed, or to lease the operation of those facilities, to a private entity that the district determines is ready, willing, and able to provide those services at a comparable cost and quality of service to what is provided by the district.
(a) “Broadband Internet access service” means a mass-market retail service by wire or radio in California that provides the capability to transmit data to and receive data from all or substantially all Internet endpoints, including any capabilities that are incidental to and enable the operation of the communications service, but excluding dial-up Internet access service. “Broadband Internet access service” also encompasses any service in California that provides a functional equivalent of that service or that is used to evade the protections set forth in this article.
(b) “Edge provider” means any individual or entity in California that provides any content, application, or service over the Internet, and any individual or entity in California that provides a device used for accessing any content, application, or service over the Internet.
(c) “End user” means any individual or entity in California that uses a broadband Internet access service.
(d) “Fixed broadband Internet access service” means any broadband Internet access service that serves end users primarily at fixed endpoints using stationary equipment in California. Fixed broadband Internet access service includes fixed wireless services, including fixed unlicensed wireless services, and fixed satellite services.
(e) “Local agency” means any agency of local government authorized by any other law to provide broadband internet access service, including a city, public capital facilities or projects financed by an infrastructure finance district, a community services district, a public utility district, and a municipal utility district.
(f) “Mobile broadband Internet access service” means any broadband Internet access service that serves end users primarily using mobile stations in California.
(g) “Paid prioritization” means the management of a broadband provider’s network to directly or indirectly favor some traffic over other traffic, including through the use of techniques such as traffic shaping, prioritization, resource reservation, or other forms of preferential traffic management, either (1) in exchange for consideration, monetary or otherwise, from a third party, or (2) to benefit an affiliated entity.
(h) “Reasonable network management” means a network management practice that has a primarily technical network management justification, but does not include other business practices. A network management practice is reasonable if it is primarily used for, and tailored to, achieving a legitimate network management purpose, taking into account the particular network architecture and technology of the broadband Internet access service.
Except for reasonable network management, a local agency engaged in the provision of broadband Internet access service shall not block lawful content, applications, services, or nonharmful devices.
Except for reasonable network management, a local agency engaged in the provision of broadband Internet access service shall not impair or degrade lawful Internet traffic on the basis of Internet content, application, or service, or use of a nonharmful device.
A local agency engaged in the provision of broadband Internet access service shall not engage in paid prioritization.
Except for reasonable network management, a local agency engaged in the provision of broadband Internet access service shall not unreasonably interfere with, or unreasonably disadvantage, either of the following:
(a) In addition to the projects authorized by Section 53395.3, any infrastructure financing district may finance public capital facilities or projects that include broadband. A district shall comply with Article 12 (commencing with Section 53167) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 when financing broadband services pursuant to this section.
(af) If a private person or entity is unable or unwilling to deploy broadband service, construct, Construct, own, improve, maintain, and operate broadband facilities and to provide broadband services. For purposes of this section, broadband has the same meaning as in subdivision (a) of Section 5830 of the Public Utilities Code. The district shall first make a reasonable effort to identify a private person or entity willing to deploy service. The authority granted by this subdivision shall expire when A district shall comply with Article 12 (commencing with Section 53167) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 when providing broadband services pursuant to this subdivision. If the district later determines that a private person or entity is ready, willing, and able to acquire, construct, improve, maintain, and operate broadband facilities and to provide broadband services, and to sell those services at a comparable cost and quality of service as provided by the district. At that time, the district shall district, the district may do one of the following:
(j) The Mountain House Community Services District may provide facilities for television and telecommunications systems, including the installation of wires, cables, conduits, fiber optic lines, terminal panels, service space, and appurtenances required to provide television, telecommunication, and data transfer services to the district and its residents, and provide facilities for a cable television system, including the installation of wires, cables, conduits, and appurtenances to service the district and its residents by franchise or license, except that the district may not provide or install any facilities pursuant to this subdivision unless one or more cable franchises or licenses have been awarded under Section 53066 and the franchised or licensed cable television and telecommunications services providers are permitted equal access to the utility trenches, conduits, service spaces, easements, utility poles, and rights-of-way in the district necessary to construct their facilities concurrently with the construction of the district’s facilities. The district shall not have the authority to operate television, cable, or telecommunications systems, except as provided in Section 61100. unless a private person or entity is unable or unwilling to deploy broadband service, construct, own, improve, maintain, and operate broadband facilities and to provide broadband services. For purposes of this section, broadband has the same meaning as in subdivision (a) of Section 5830 of the Public Utilities Code. The district shall first make a reasonable effort to identify a private person or entity willing to deploy service. The district shall comply with Article 12 (commencing with Section 53167) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 when providing broadband services pursuant to this subdivision. The authority granted by this subdivision shall expire when a private person or entity is ready, willing, and able to acquire, construct, improve, maintain, and operate broadband facilities and to provide broadband services, and to sell those services at a comparable cost and quality of service as provided by the district. At that time, the district shall either diligently transfer its title, ownership, maintenance, control, and operation of those broadband facilities and services at a fair market value to that private person or entity, or lease the operation of those broadband facilities at a fair market value to that private person or entity. The district shall have the same powers as a city or county under Section 53066 in granting a franchise or license for the operation of a cable television system.
A municipal corporation that provides broadband services shall comply with the requirements of Article 12 (commencing with Section 53167) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code.
A district that provides broadband services shall comply with the requirements of Article 12 (commencing with Section 53167) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code.