House Amendment 1736


PAG LIN




     1  1    Amend the amendment, H=1598, to Senate File 554, as
     1  2 amended, passed, and reprinted by the Senate, as
     1  3 follows:
     1  4 #1.  Page 5, by striking lines 7 through 9 and
     1  5 inserting the following:
     1  6    <#   .  Page 14, by striking lines 14 through 35
     1  7 and inserting the following:
     1  8    <3.  A cable service provider or video service
     1  9 provider operating under a certificate of franchise
     1 10 authority that is using a cable system to provide
     1 11 cable services or that is using telecommunication
     1 12 facilities to provide video services shall, commencing
     1 13 five years after initially obtaining a certificate of
     1 14 franchise authority, and every three years thereafter,
     1 15 increase by twenty percent the number of households in
     1 16 any municipality in its franchise service area to
     1 17 which it offers cable service or video service by the
     1 18 beginning of the next three=year period, if it has in
     1 19 the preceding three=year period offered cable service
     1 20 or video service to at least fifteen percent of the
     1 21 households in the municipality, until such cable
     1 22 service provider or video service provider is capable
     1 23 of providing cable service or video service to all
     1 24 households in the municipality.>>
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     1 28 JOCHUM of Dubuque
     1 29 SF 554.207 82
     1 30 rn/es/9361
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