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Bills · 2011-2012 Regular Session

AB 359

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

an income and franchise tax credit for providing broadband service.

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill creates an income and franchise tax credit for amounts that a taxpayer

spends for infrastructure costs to provide broadband service to any of the following:

1. Rural areas in this state.

2. Areas in this state where there is no broadband service or where the Internet

access service is no more than 200 kilobits per second.

3. Areas in this state that are populated primarily by low-income persons.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: A. Ott (R) , Mursau (R) , Petrowski (R) , Petryk (R) , Ripp (R) , Spanbauer (R)

3 cosponsors

Bies (R) , Holperin (D) , Taylor (D)

Full history

  1. Nov 3, 2011 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Mursau, Spanbauer, Petryk, Petrowski, A. Ott and Ripp;Cosponsored by Senators Holperin and Taylor

  2. Nov 3, 2011 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Jobs, Economy and Small Business

  3. Nov 14, 2011 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Jan 11, 2012 · Assembly

    Representative Bies added as a coauthor

  5. Mar 23, 2012 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1