PRINTER'S NO. 339
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
63
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY SNYDER, T. DAVIS, IRVIN, SCHLOSSBERG, MURT, JAMES,
D. MILLER, HILL-EVANS, NEILSON, PASHINSKI, MILLARD, ULLMAN,
GROVE, BERNSTINE, SAYLOR, DEASY, DeLUCA, BIZZARRO, MARKOSEK,
SCHWEYER AND McCLINTON, FEBRUARY 5, 2019
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FEBRUARY 5, 2019
A RESOLUTION
Directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee and the
Joint State Government Commission to jointly conduct an
audit and study on the compliance of nonrural
telecommunication carriers with the Public Utility Code and
high-speed broadband universal service deployment mandates
and to report their findings and recommendations to the House
of Representatives.
WHEREAS, The purpose of 66 Pa.C.S. Ch. 30 was to ensure that
all areas of this Commonwealth have a modern, state-of-the-art
broadband telecommunications network by the end of 2015, with
incumbent local exchange telecommunications companies (ILETCs)
receiving substantially greater pricing and earnings flexibility
than the traditional rate-of-return form of regulation under
which the prices and earnings had originally been set to fund
the deployment of high-speed broadband networks throughout this
Commonwealth; and
WHEREAS, The intended goal of 66 Pa.C.S. Ch. 30 was to
promote an accelerated roll-out of a mass market and universal
broadband network which would establish this Commonwealth as a
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