Newsom Signs CASF, Other Bills, Vetoes AB-1560
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed broadband bills Friday to extend and enlarge the California Advanced Services Fund. Newsom signed AB-14 and SB-4 that together extend CASF by 10 years and raise the surcharge cap to $150 million yearly from…
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$66 million (see 2109100035). He signed SB-28 to increase California Public Utilities Commission authority to check if state video franchisees are deploying enough broadband. Newsom signed SB-378, requiring localities to let fiber installers use microtrenching unless shown it would hurt health and safety. He signed AB-41 about agency coordination on conduit deployment. Newsom vetoed the cable-backed AB-1560 on distance learning because he said the funding duplicated money from other recent laws. Earlier last week, Newsom vetoed a small-cells bill meant to streamline wireless infrastructure deployment by preempting localities in the right of way (see 2110050043).