Minnesota Legislature
HF 2064
as introduced - 93rd Legislature (2023 - 2024) Posted on 03/16/2023 04:02pm
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A bill for an act
relating to telecommunications; modifying state government pricing plans;
amending Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 237.066.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
Section 1.
Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 237.066, is amended to read:
237.066 STATE GOVERNMENT PRICING PLANS.
Subdivision 1.
Purpose.
A state governmentnew text begin or Tribal governmentnew text end telecommunications
pricing plan is authorized and found to be in the public interest as it will:
(1) provide and ensure availability of high-quality, technologically advanced
telecommunications services at a reasonable cost to the statenew text begin or Tribal governmentnew text end; and
(2) further the state telecommunications goals as set forth in section 237.011.
Subd. 2.
Program participation.
A state governmentnew text begin or Tribal governmentnew text end
telecommunications pricing plan may be available to serve individually or collectively:
state agencies;new text begin Tribal governments;new text end educational institutions, including public schoolsnew text begin and
Tribal schoolsnew text end complying with section 120A.05, subdivision 9, 11, 13, or 17, and nonpublic
schools complying with sections 120A.22, 120A.24, and 120A.41; private colleges; public
corporations; and political subdivisions of the statenew text begin or a Tribal nationnew text end. Plans shall be available
to carry out the commissioner of administration's duties under sections 16E.17 and 16E.18
and shall also be available to those entities not using the commissioner for contracting for
telecommunications services.
Subd. 3.
Rates.
Notwithstanding section 237.09, 237.14, 237.60, subdivision 3, or
237.74, a telephone company or a telecommunications carrier may, individually or in
cooperation with other telephone companies or telecommunications carriers, develop and
offer basic or advanced telecommunications services at discounted or reduced rates as a
state governmentnew text begin or Tribal governmentnew text end telecommunications pricing plan. Any
telecommunications services provided under any state governmentnew text begin or Tribal governmentnew text end
telecommunications pricing plan shall be used exclusively by deleted text beginthosedeleted text endnew text begin thenew text end entities described
in subdivision 2 subject to the plan solely for deleted text begintheirdeleted text endnew text begin the entities'new text end own use and shall not be
made available to any other entities by resale, sublease, or in any other way.
Subd. 4.
Applicability to other customers.
A telephone company or telecommunications
carrier providing telecommunications services under a state governmentnew text begin or Tribal governmentnew text end
telecommunications pricing plan is not required to provide any other person or entity those
services at the rates made available to the statenew text begin or Tribal governmentnew text end.
Subd. 5.
Commission review.
new text begin(a) new text endThe terms and conditions of any state governmentnew text begin or
Tribal governmentnew text end telecommunications pricing plan must be submitted to the commission
for deleted text beginitsdeleted text end review and approval within 90 days before implementation to:
(1) ensure that the terms and conditions benefit the statenew text begin or Tribal nationnew text end and not any
private entity;
(2) ensure that the rates for any telecommunications service in any state governmentnew text begin or
Tribal governmentnew text end telecommunications pricing plan are at or below any applicable tariffed
rates; and
(3) ensure that the state telecommunicationsnew text begin or Tribal governmentnew text end pricing plan meets
the requirements of this section and is in the public interest.
new text begin (b) new text endThe commission shall reject any state governmentnew text begin or Tribal governmentnew text end
telecommunications pricing plan that does not meet deleted text beginthesedeleted text endnew text begin thenew text end criterianew text begin in paragraph (a)new text end.