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AB 1784: Internet Tax Freedom Act: Continuation Introduced: 1/26/00
The California Internet Tax Freedom Act prohibits, with specified exceptions, the imposition, assessment, or attempt to collect (1) a tax on Internet access, On-line Computer Services, or the use of the Internet or On-line Computer Services, (2) a bit or bandwidth tax, or (3) any discriminatory tax on On-line Computer Services or Internet access. This act provides that it is to become inoperative on January 1, 2002. This bill would remove this limit on the operation of the California Internet Tax Freedom Act. Status: read first time. SB 1217: Internet broadband access. Introduced: 2/26/99 Under the Public Utilities Act, the Public Utilities Commission has the authority to regulate public utilities, including telecommunications. Existing law does not address nondiscriminatory access to the Internet through wireline broadband Internet access transport providers. This bill would enact the Internet Access Enhancement Act of 1999. The bill would require a wireline broadband Internet access transport provider, as defined, to provide any other requesting Internet service provider, as defined, access to the broadband Internet access transport services of that transport provider, as prescribed. COMM. LOCATION: ASM UTILITIES AND COMMERCE LAST ACTION DATE: 07/12/1999 Status: Although no recent activity has occurred, this bill is a 2-year bill that is alive because it passed out of its house of origine last year.
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