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Senate of Pennsylvania
Session of 2023 - 2024 Regular Session

MEMORANDUM

Posted: April 10, 2023 03:51 PM
From: Senator Jarrett Coleman and Sen. Kristin Phillips-Hill
To: All Senate members
Subject: Standardizing the approval process for broadband and railroad crossings
 
Pennsylvania has over 5900 miles of railroad track crisscrossing the state. The process and timeline for broadband providers in obtaining right-of-way approval from railroad owners has become a roadblock to the timely deployment of high speed internet in the Commonwealth.

Senator Phillips-Hill and I will be introducing legislation, modeled after a law recently enacted in Virginia (attached), to address this issue by creating a standardized timeline for approval, implementation, and fee schedule for the crossings.

We hope you will join us in sponsoring this legislation.
 

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Introduced as SB1140