SB3809 - Tennessee: Telecommunications

Companion Bill HB3522. Telecommunications - Authorizes pole attachments at just and reasonable rates to municipally owned utilities' and rural cooperatively-owned utilities' poles by telecommunications service providers and cable operators. - Amends TCA Section 65-21-105. Fiscal Summary for *SB3809 / HB3522 Increase State Revenue - Not Significant Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Decrease Local Revenue - Exceeds $4,000,000 Bill Summary for *SB3809 / HB3522 Present law allows a municipality to acquire, improve, operate, and maintain an electric plant and a transmission line to provide and charge for electric service to any user or consumer of electric power and energy. Present law allows one or more nonprofit corporations to incorporate as a rural electric and community services cooperative for specified purposes such as [...]

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