South Carolina General Assembly
118th Session, 2009-2010

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S. 386

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General Bill
Sponsors: Senator Fair
Document Path: l:\s-res\mlf\006alac.kmm.mlf.docx
Companion/Similar bill(s): 3525

Introduced in the Senate on February 4, 2009
Currently residing in the Senate Committee on Judiciary

Summary: Cable companies

HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

     Date      Body   Action Description with journal page number
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    2/4/2009  Senate  Introduced and read first time SJ-1
    2/4/2009  Senate  Referred to Committee on Judiciary SJ-1
    2/6/2009  Senate  Referred to Subcommittee: Rankin (ch), Hutto, Campbell

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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL

2/4/2009

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A BILL

TO AMEND SECTION 58-12-90 OF THE 1976 CODE, RELATING TO CABLE COMPANIES MAKING A CHANNEL AVAILABLE TO THE EDUCATION TELEVISION COMMISSION, TO PROVIDE THAT CABLE COMPANIES MUST ALSO OFFER A CABLE SERVICE TIER THAT ALLOWS SUBSCRIBERS TO CHOOSE CHANNELS ON AN INDIVIDUAL PER-CHANNEL BASIS.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION    1.    Section 58-12-90 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:

"Section 58-12-90.    (A)    All cable television companies operating in the State shall make available one six megahertz channel for the transmissions of the South Carolina Educational Television Commission.

(B)    All cable television companies operating in the State shall offer a basic cable service tier comprised of required local, public, educational, and government channels and channels offered on an individual per-channel basis rather than solely as part of a package or tier of programming. Nothing in this section prevents a cable television company from offering tiers or packages of service that contain any or all channels offered on an individual per-channel basis."

SECTION    2.    This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

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