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1 | HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, The deployment and adoption of rural high-speed | ||||||
3 | Internet services and information
technology has resulted in | ||||||
4 | enhanced economic development and public safety for the
State's | ||||||
5 | communities, improved health care and educational | ||||||
6 | opportunities, and a better
quality of life for the State's | ||||||
7 | residents; and
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8 | WHEREAS, Continued progress in the deployment and adoption | ||||||
9 | of rural high speed Internet services
and information | ||||||
10 | technology is vital in ensuring that the State of Illinois | ||||||
11 | remains competitive and
continues to create business and job | ||||||
12 | growth; therefore, be it
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13 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
14 | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE SENATE | ||||||
15 | CONCURRING HEREIN, that the Rural Broadband Deployment Task | ||||||
16 | Force is created; and be it further | ||||||
17 | RESOLVED, That the Rural Broadband Deployment Task Force | ||||||
18 | shall consist of the following members: | ||||||
19 | (1) one Senate member appointed by the Senate | ||||||
20 | President, who shall serve as co-chairperson; | ||||||
21 | (2) one Senate member appointed by the Senate Minority | ||||||
22 | Leader; |
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1 | (3) one House member appointed by the Speaker of the | ||||||
2 | House, who shall serve as co-chairperson; | ||||||
3 | (4) one House member appointed by the House Minority | ||||||
4 | Leader; | ||||||
5 | (5) the Director of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, | ||||||
6 | or his or her designee; | ||||||
7 | (6) the Chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission, | ||||||
8 | or his or her designee; | ||||||
9 | (7) the Secretary of Transportation, or his or her | ||||||
10 | designee; | ||||||
11 | (8) the Chairman of the Illinois State Toll Highway | ||||||
12 | Authority, or his or her designee; | ||||||
13 | (9) the Chairman of the Illinois Finance Authority, or | ||||||
14 | his or her designee; | ||||||
15 | (10) the State Superintendent of Education, or his or | ||||||
16 | her designee; | ||||||
17 | (11) the Chairman of the Board of Higher Education, or | ||||||
18 | his or her designee | ||||||
19 | (12) the Director of Central Management Services, or | ||||||
20 | his or her designee; and | ||||||
21 | (13) the Director of Innovation & Technology, or his or | ||||||
22 | her designee; and be it further | ||||||
23 | RESOLVED, That appointments to the Rural Broadband | ||||||
24 | Deployment Task Force shall be made with consideration of the | ||||||
25 | diversity of the State,
including members representing rural |
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1 | areas, underserved rural areas, consumer interests,
community | ||||||
2 | interests, commercial interests including Incumbent and | ||||||
3 | Competitive Local
Exchange Carriers, and other entities | ||||||
4 | providing communications or information services but not
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5 | classified as Local Exchange Carriers; and be it further | ||||||
6 | RESOLVED, That the Rural Broadband Deployment Task Force | ||||||
7 | shall be charged with the following duties: | ||||||
8 | (1) identify those portions of the rural | ||||||
9 | telecommunications infrastructure owned by agencies
of the | ||||||
10 | State of Illinois that can be made available for lease to | ||||||
11 | commercial ventures, non-profit
agencies, and local | ||||||
12 | governments and to establish standard procedures and | ||||||
13 | pricing for lease of
that infrastructure; | ||||||
14 | (2) study any rural infrastructure improvements that | ||||||
15 | are currently underway by the State of Illinois; this | ||||||
16 | includes the installation of an underground conduit that | ||||||
17 | can be
made available on a non-discriminatory basis to | ||||||
18 | public, private, and non-profit entities interested
in | ||||||
19 | running fiber-optic lines for communications or | ||||||
20 | information services through the conduit; | ||||||
21 | (3) study the current level of coordination between | ||||||
22 | rural private and public telecommunications
deployment, | ||||||
23 | including, but not limited to, grant-making and financing | ||||||
24 | of various statewide, local,
and regional efforts and | ||||||
25 | public-private partnerships; |
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1 | (4) study the available rural State, federal, and | ||||||
2 | private
funding sources for private and public | ||||||
3 | telecommunications deployment; | ||||||
4 | (5) study rural telecommunications
initiatives that | ||||||
5 | require legislative approval, including the creation of a | ||||||
6 | State entity that handles
distribution of funds for private | ||||||
7 | and public telecommunications projects; | ||||||
8 | (7) study ways to foster competition among all rural | ||||||
9 | entities providing commercial communications or
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10 | information services; and | ||||||
11 | (8) assess and catalog the rural telecommunications | ||||||
12 | infrastructure of the State of
Illinois for the purpose of | ||||||
13 | determining the present and future needs of the State with | ||||||
14 | respect to
realizing the goals of competition, | ||||||
15 | affordability, universal service, and securing the State's
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16 | telecommunications and economic future; and be it further | ||||||
17 | RESOLVED, That members of the Rural Broadband Deployment | ||||||
18 | Task Force shall serve without compensation and the Illinois
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19 | Department of Innovation & Technology shall provide | ||||||
20 | administrative and other support to the
Task Force; and be it | ||||||
21 | further | ||||||
22 | RESOLVED, That the Rural Broadband Deployment Task Force | ||||||
23 | shall submit its final report
to General Assembly by December | ||||||
24 | 31, 2018; and be it further
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1 | RESOLVED, That upon the filing of its final report, the | ||||||
2 | Rural Broadband Deployment Task Force is dissolved.
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