Mo. Senate Committee OKs Muni Broadband Limits
A Missouri Senate committee advanced municipal broadband restrictions in a vote Tuesday. SB-186 by Sen. Ed Emery (R) would prohibit local governments from offering competitive services, including retail and wholesale models, unless the community releases a public feasibility study and…
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voters allow it. The bill next could get a vote by the full Senate. “SB 186 fattens the state’s existing laws that insert state government between a local community and its ability to make its own choices about its broadband future,” said the Institute for Local Self-Reliance in a blog post Tuesday.