Resolve, To Coordinate a Plan To Expand Cellular Telephone Service

Sec. 1. Plan to expand cellular telephone service. Resolved: That the Department of Economic and Community Development, in coordination with the ConnectME Authority established in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, section 12004-G, subsection 33-F, the Department of Administrative and Financial Services and the University of Maine System, Networkmaine, shall develop a plan to leverage state assets to expand cellular telephone service to underserved areas of the State. The plan may be developed in connection with any plans to expand broadband service prepared by the ConnectME Authority pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 35-A, chapter 93.

Sec. 2. Report; authority for legislation. Resolved: That, no later than February 1, 2020, the Department of Economic and Community Development shall submit a report on the plan developed under section 1 to the Joint Standing Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology. The committee may report out a bill to the Second Regular Session of the 129th Legislature related to the report.