DOA:......Sherwin, BB0114 - TEACH Broadband Speed Threshold
For 2025-2027 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
STATE GOVERNMENT
General state government
TEACH; broadband speed threshold
Under current law, DOA administers the Technology for Educational Achievement program, known as TEACH. As part of TEACH, current law requires DOA to establish an educational telecommunications access program to provide educational agencies with access to data lines. Under current law, DOA must require an educational agency to pay not more than $250 per month for each data line provided under the program. However, the maximum amount DOA may charge an educational agency for a data line is not more than $100 per month if the data line relies on a transport medium that operates at a speed of 1.544 megabits per second. This bill increases the threshold speed for the $100 per month maximum payment to 100 megabits per second.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. 16.997 (2) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
16.997 (2) (d) Require an educational agency to pay the department not more than $250 per month for each data line that is provided to the educational agency under the program established under sub. (1), except that the charge may not exceed $100 per month for each data line that relies on a transport medium that operates at a speed of 1.544 100 megabits per second.
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