Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.29 – Compliance during the grant agreement
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.29
- Broadband service: means deployed mass-market retail internet access service with a minimum of one hundred megabits per second, or Mbps, download and at least twenty megabits per second upload transmission speeds. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.22
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Office: means the office of broadband development and connectivity within the division of administration. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.22
- Project: means an undertaking by an eligible grant recipient to construct and deploy infrastructure for the provision of broadband service. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.22
The office will conduct an implementation meeting with a grant recipient within thirty days of execution of a grant agreement and will make reporting templates and instructions available at or shortly after the implementation meeting. The office shall require that a grant recipient offer the proposed advertised minimum download and minimum upload speeds of one hundred Mbps download and twenty Mbps upload. A grant recipient that has offered broadband service to at least one thousand consumers for a period of at least five consecutive years shall offer broadband service at prices consistent with offers to consumers in other areas of the state. Any other broadband service provider shall ensure that the broadband service is priced to consumers at no more than the cost rate identified in the project application for the duration of the five-year service agreement. In calculating cost, the grant recipient may adjust annually consistent with the annual percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index in the preceding year. At least annually, a grant recipient shall provide to the office evidence consistent with the Federal Communications Commission attestation that the grant recipient is making available the proposed advertised speed, or a faster speed, as contained in the grant agreement.
Acts 2023, No. 383, §1.