SB 5679-S.E - DIGEST
(AS OF SENATE 2ND READING 2/28/17)

Provides that port districts located in counties with a population less than seven hundred thousand are eligible to construct, purchase, acquire, develop, finance, lease, license, handle, provide, add to, contract for, interconnect, alter, improve, repair, operate, and maintain telecommunications facilities, within or without the district's limits, using unlit optical fiber.

Authorizes the port districts to select a telecommunications company to operate its telecommunications facilities.