Eight telecom bills met defeat in Conn. when they failed to pass ...
Eight telecom bills met defeat in Conn. when they failed to pass out of committee by a procedural “move or die” deadline. Four failed bills would have changed municipal jurisdiction over wireless telecom tower siting. They were HB-5124 and…
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HB-6031, which would have given local land-use authorities the right to regulate tower siting; HB-5124, which would have restricted tower placements near residential or agricultural property, and HB-6022, which would have required municipalities to file reports with the state on where wireless towers were located within their boundaries and would have compelled wireless carriers to notify local govts. and neighbors before constructing any new tower at any location in a municipality. Conn. also saw 3 telemarketing- related bills defeated in committee: SB-481, which would have allowed state regulators to revoke the certificate of a telephone carrier that persistently violated the state’s no- call telemarketing law; SB-141, which would have allowed ISPs and consumers to sue spam senders who failed to desist upon request, and HB-5090, which would have allowed fax numbers on the state no-call list. Also failing was SB-1001 that would have required state regulators to conduct an annual review of the assessment that supported the state’s enhanced 911 systems.