AB56,141,13 16.9945 (5) Sunset. The department may not award grants under this section after July 1, 2019 June 30, 2021.

AB56,107 Section 107 . 16.996 of the statutes is repealed.

AB56,108 Section 108. 16.997 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56,141,18 16.997 (1) Except as provided in s. 196.218 (4t), the department shall promulgate rules establishing an educational telecommunications access program to provide educational agencies with access to data lines and video links.

AB56,109 Section 109. 16.997 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56,141,21 16.997 (2) (a) Allow an educational agency to make a request to the department for access to data lines and video links.

AB56,110 Section 110. 16.997 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56,142,4 16.997 (2) (b) Establish eligibility requirements for an educational agency to participate in the program established under sub. (1) and to receive additional telecommunications access under s. 16.998, including a requirement that a charter school sponsor use data lines and video links to benefit pupils attending the charter school and a requirement that Internet access to material that is harmful to children, as defined in s. 948.11 (1) (b), is blocked on the computers of juvenile correctional facilities that are served by data links and video links subsidized under this section.

AB56,111 Section 111. 16.997 (2) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56,142,9 16.997 (2) (c) Establish specifications for data lines and video links for which access is provided to an educational agency under the program established under sub. (1) or for which additional access is provided to an educational agency under s. 16.998.

AB56,112 Section 112. 16.997 (2) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56,142,15 16.997 (2) (d) Require an educational agency to pay the department not more than $250 per month for each data line or video link 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 or video link that relies on a transport medium that operates at a speed of 1.544 megabits 1 gigabyte per second.

AB56,113 Section 113. 16.997 (2) (f) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56,142,20 16.997 (2) (f) Ensure that juvenile correctional facilities that receive access under this section to data lines and video links or that receive additional access under s. 16.998 to data lines, video links, and bandwidth use those data lines and video links and that bandwidth only for educational purposes.

AB56,114 Section 114. 16.997 (2c) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56,143,2 16.997 (2c) The department shall develop criteria to use to evaluate whether to provide more than one data line and video link to an educational agency. The department shall include in the criteria an educational agency's current bandwidth, equipment, and readiness, and the available providers and any other economic development in the geographic area that the educational agency serves.

AB56,115 Section 115. 16.997 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56,143,6 16.997 (3) The department shall prepare an annual report on the status of providing data lines and video links that are requested under sub. (2) (a) and the impact on the universal service fund of any payment under contracts under s. 16.974.

AB56,116 Section 116 . 16.997 (7) of the statutes is repealed.

AB56,117 Section 117. 16.998 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56,143,19 16.998 Educational telecommunications; additional access. An educational agency that is eligible for a rate discount for telecommunications services under 47 USC 254 may request data lines, video links, and bandwidth access that is in addition to what is provided under the program under s. 16.997 (1). The department shall apply for aid under 47 USC 254 to cover the costs of the data lines, video links, and bandwidth access that are provided under this section and shall credit any aid received to the appropriation account under s. 20.505 (4) (mp). To the extent that the aid does not fully cover those costs, the department shall require an educational agency to pay the department a monthly fee that is sufficient to cover those costs and shall credit any monthly fee received to the appropriation account under s. 20.505 (4) (Lm).

AB56,118 Section 118. 18.04 (5) (c) of the statutes is repealed.

AB56,119 Section 119. 18.04 (5) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56,143,23 18.04 (5) (d) To acquire public debt contracted for any of the purposes under pars. (a) to (c) and (b).

AB56,120 Section 120. 18.04 (6) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56,144,5 18.04 (6) (b) The commission may direct that moneys resulting from any public debt contracted under this section be deposited in the funds or accounts created or designated by resolution of the commission or established by resolution under s. 45.37 (7), including escrow accounts established under refunding escrow agreements that are authorized by the commission.

AB56,121 Section 121. 18.04 (6) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56,144,10 18.04 (6) (c) Notwithstanding s. 25.17, moneys deposited or held in funds or accounts under par. (b) and all other moneys received under s. 45.37 (7) (a) (intro.) may be invested in any obligations, either through cash purchase or exchange, as specified by resolution of the commission.