SF 2866

1st Unofficial Engrossment - 85th Legislature (2007 - 2008)

Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00 a.m.

1.1A bill for an act 1.2relating to telecommunications; providing for a broadband mapping project; 1.3appropriating money. 1.4BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 1.5    Section 1. new text begin BROADBAND MAPPING PROJECT. new text end 1.6     new text begin Subdivision 1. new text end new text begin Project. new text end new text begin The commissioner of commerce shall contract with a new text end 1.7 new text begin nonprofit organization that has significant experience working with broadband providers new text end 1.8 new text begin to develop Geographical Information System maps displaying levels of broadband new text end 1.9 new text begin service by connection speed and type of technology used and integrating the maps with new text end 1.10 new text begin demographic information to produce a comprehensive statewide inventory and mapping new text end 1.11 new text begin of existing broadband service and capability. new text end 1.12     new text begin Subd. 2. new text end new text begin Mapping. new text end new text begin Data must be collected from broadband providers and entered new text end 1.13 new text begin into a geographic information system to produce maps that, for the state of Minnesota and new text end 1.14 new text begin any defined geographical entity within it, clearly convey the following information: new text end 1.15     new text begin (1) areas unserved by any broadband provider; new text end 1.16     new text begin (2) areas served by a single broadband provider; new text end 1.17     new text begin (3) the location of towers used to transmit and receive broadband signals; new text end 1.18     new text begin (4) actual upstream and downstream transmission speeds at the county level of detail; new text end 1.19     new text begin (5) areas served by multiple broadband providers; and new text end 1.20     new text begin (6) the types of technology used to provide broadband service. new text end 1.21 new text begin The data used to produce the maps must be capable of being integrated with demographic new text end 1.22 new text begin data from other sources including, but not limited to, population density and household new text end 1.23 new text begin income to allow for the production of maps that measure, down to the census block new text end 1.24 new text begin level of detail, various characteristics of residents in areas receiving different levels of new text end 2.1 new text begin broadband services and utilizing different technologies. Data provided by a broadband new text end 2.2 new text begin provider to the contractor under this subdivision is nonpublic data under Minnesota new text end 2.3 new text begin Statutes, section 13.02, subdivision 9. Maps produced under this subdivision are public new text end 2.4 new text begin data under Minnesota Statutes, section 13.03. new text end 2.5     new text begin For the purposes of this section, "technology" or "technologies" means different new text end 2.6 new text begin methods of connecting to the Internet including, but not limited to, cable modem, DSL, new text end 2.7 new text begin ADSL, VDSL, and fiber optics. new text end 2.8    Sec. 2. new text begin APPROPRIATION. new text end 2.9     new text begin Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 237.52, subdivision 5, $175,000 is new text end 2.10 new text begin appropriated from the telecommunications access Minnesota fund to the commissioner of new text end 2.11 new text begin commerce for the purposes of section 1. new text end 2.12 new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE. new text end new text begin This section is effective the day following final enactment. new text end