Monday, May 16, 2005

Texas drops anti-municipal-networks clause

Being a Naturalized Texan living in Austin, I am quite happy about this little turn of events -- you can bet this is good news.

David Isenberg writes over on his isen.blog:

Adina Levin reports that anti-muni-networking language has been dropped from the Texas Telecommunication Bill (HB789). She writes:
Four people testified with thanks for removing that section of the bill:
* Snapper Carr of the Texas Municipal League
* Robert Wood, City Manager of Flatonia
* Wayne Caswell
* Adina Levin, SaveMuniWireless.org
Nobody testified in favor of adding the provision back.
It ain't law yet, and you know Texas politics . . . but this *is* a *big* win.


posted by Fergie @ 5/16/2005 01:15:00 PM

2 Comments:

At Tue May 17, 01:53:00 PM PDT, Anonymous Anonymous said...

There has been some confusion on this. The senate hearing went great, but this is a long way from over. A clarification has been posted to the Save Muni Wireless site.

 
At Tue May 17, 02:22:00 PM PDT, Blogger Adina said...

Hi there. The ban was gone from the committee substitute of HB789 in the Senate Business and Commerce Committee, but we are not home free yet!

The bill needs to pass out of committee, and then pass out of the Senate.

Then, it needs to go to conference committee and be reconciled with the house version, that does include the ban.

Please follow http://www.savemuniwireless.org for current action alerts.

 

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