CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
SENATE BILL 5715
Chapter 237, Laws of 2022
67TH LEGISLATURE
2022 REGULAR SESSION
BROADBAND AND BROADBAND SERVICE—DEFINITIONS
EFFECTIVE DATE: June 9, 2022
Passed by the Senate February 15, 2022 Yeas 49 Nays 0 DENNY HECK
President of the Senate Passed by the House March 3, 2022 Yeas 96 Nays 2 LAURIE JINKINS
Speaker of the House of Representatives | CERTIFICATE I, Sarah Bannister, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5715 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth. SARAH BANNISTER
Secretary Secretary |
Approved March 30, 2022 2:55 PM | FILED March 31, 2022 |
JAY INSLEE
Governor of the State of Washington | Secretary of State State of Washington |
SENATE BILL 5715
Passed Legislature - 2022 Regular Session
State of Washington | 67th Legislature | 2022 Regular Session |
BySenators Wellman, Sheldon, Randall, and C. Wilson
Prefiled 01/06/22.Read first time 01/10/22.Referred to Committee on Environment, Energy & Technology.
AN ACT Relating to modifying the definition of broadband or broadband service; amending RCW
43.330.530; and creating a new section.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The legislature recognizes the statewide broadband office's objective of scalability while appreciating that a digital economy will continue to drive higher and higher speeds. Therefore, the legislature intends to move towards adequate connectivity in terms of the needs of economic development, education, and telehealth services.
Sec. 2. RCW
43.330.530 and 2019 c 365 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
The definitions in this section apply throughout this section and RCW
43.330.532 through
43.330.538 unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
(1) "Board" means the public works board established in RCW
43.155.030.
(2) "Broadband" or "broadband service" means any service providing advanced telecommunications capability and internet access with transmission speeds that, at a minimum, provide ((twenty-five))100 megabits per second download and ((three))20 megabits per second upload.
(3) "Broadband infrastructure" means networks of deployed telecommunications equipment and technologies necessary to provide high-speed internet access and other advanced telecommunications services to end users.
(4) "Department" means the department of commerce.
(5) "Last mile infrastructure" means broadband infrastructure that serves as the final connection from a broadband service provider's network to the end-use customer's on-premises telecommunications equipment.
(6) "Local government" includes cities, towns, counties, municipal corporations, public port districts, public utility districts, quasi-municipal corporations, special purpose districts, and multiparty entities comprised of public entity members.
(7) "Middle mile infrastructure" means broadband infrastructure that links a broadband service provider's core network infrastructure to last mile infrastructure.
(8) "Office" means the governor's statewide broadband office established in RCW
43.330.532.
(9) "Tribe" means any federally recognized Indian tribe whose traditional lands and territories included parts of Washington.
(10) "Unserved areas" means areas of Washington in which households and businesses lack access to broadband service, as defined by the office((, except that the state's definition for broadband service may not be actual speeds less than twenty-five megabits per second download and three megabits per second upload)).
Passed by the Senate February 15, 2022.
Passed by the House March 3, 2022.
Approved by the Governor March 30, 2022.
Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 31, 2022.
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