Rural communications cooperatives.
Summary
Changes the rural telephone cooperative act to the rural communications cooperative act, allowing the formation of nonprofit cooperative corporations for the purposes of providing telecommunications service and information service, including video service, broadband service, and VOIP service. Makes conforming amendments.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2020
Committee Review
Feb 2020
Senate Passage
Feb 2020
House Passage
Mar 2020
Signed into Law
Mar 2020
Introduced Jan 13, 2020
Signed Mar 18, 2020
Floor votes · Senate Feb 4, 2020 · House Mar 2, 2020
How they voted
40–0
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 41
Feb 4, 2020
D
Democratic8
87% Yea
R
Republican33
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
27
Key actions
5
Committee
3
Amendments
1
Mar 18, 2020
Signed into law
Signed by the Governor
executive
Mar 3, 2020
Introduced
Returned to the Senate without amendments
lower
Mar 2, 2020
House · Passed
House Vote: pass (82-0-10)
house
Feb 24, 2020
Lower · Passed
Committee report: do pass, adopted
lower
Feb 5, 2020
Committee
Referred to the House
upper
Feb 4, 2020
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (40-0-1)
senate
Jan 30, 2020
Upper · Passed
Committee report: do pass, adopted
upper
3 primary · 9 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Eric Koch
RRepublican
P
Erin Houchin
RRepublican
P
Ethan Manning
RRepublican
Co
Dennis Kruse
RRepublican
Co
Ed Soliday
RRepublican
Co
Jean Leising
RRepublican
Co
John Crane
RRepublican
Co
Matt Pierce
DDemocratic
Co
Michael Crider
RRepublican
Co
Mike Bohacek
RRepublican
Co
Steve Bartels
RRepublican
Co
Sue Glick
RRepublican
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