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SF 766 Senate Long Description

Establishing an education telecommunications fund account and +imposing a surcharge (access fee) on end user bills issued by communications +providers for customer wirelines or wireless access lines for voice or data telecommunications services for deposit in the account by the +commissioner of revenue to fund the kindergarten through grade 12 schools and public +library portions of the learning network of Minnesota formerly funded through+ the department of children, families and learning (CFL), specifying +certain eligible expenditures; requiring the Minnesota education +telecommunications council (METC) to oversee the operation of the network, to develop a +funding plan consistent with the regional distribution method recommended by +the permanent funding report and to establish standards for +interoperability and minimum bandwidth; requiring schools and libraries receiving +telecommunications funds to apply for e-rate discounts through the appropriate region or+ cluster, regions and clusters denied the discounts to be fully funded through +the account; designating the department as the fiscal agent for the +programs; limiting the amount authorized to be expended from the account for administration costs (je)