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Texas 83rd Legislature Regular Session
Relating to notice and information provided by a municipal solid waste facility and a commercial transporter of solid waste regarding recycling programs for certain electronic waste. [HB-648]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Environmental ]
Relating to notice and information provided by a municipal solid waste facility and a commercial transporter of solid waste regarding recycling programs for certain electronic waste.
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Relating to standards for recycling or reusing computer and television equipment. [HB-3465]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Environmental ]
Relating to standards for recycling or reusing computer and television equipment.
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Texas 83rd Legislature Regular Session
Relating to apportionment of the programming and subscription revenue of direct-to-home satellite service providers under the franchise tax. [HB-3389]
[Taxes ]
[Telecommunications ]
Relating to apportionment of the programming and subscription revenue of direct-to-home satellite service providers under the franchise tax.
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Texas 83rd Legislature Regular Session
Relating to the computation of costs of goods sold for purposes of the franchise tax by certain taxable entities engaged in film or motion picture exhibition. [HB-3388]
[Film Production ]
[Taxes ]
Relating to the computation of costs of goods sold for purposes of the franchise tax by certain taxable entities engaged in film or motion picture exhibition.
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Texas 83rd Legislature Regular Session
Relating to information on the moving image industry incentive program. [HB-2642]
[Film Production ]
[Economic Development ]
Relating to information on the moving image industry incentive program.
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Texas 83rd Legislature Regular Session
Relating to apportionment of certain receipts of a broadcaster under the franchise tax. [HB-2145]
[Taxes ]
[Media and Advertising ]
Relating to apportionment of certain receipts of a broadcaster under the franchise tax.
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Texas 83rd Legislature Regular Session
Relating to exempting certain amounts charged for certain cable television services from the sales and use tax. [HB-1900]
[Taxes ]
[Telecommunications ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Relating to exempting certain amounts charged for certain cable television services from the sales and use tax.
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Texas 83rd Legislature Regular Session
Relating to the collection and recycling of computer and television equipment by certain retailers; providing for the imposition of administrative penalties. [HB-1346]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
Relating to the collection and recycling of computer and television equipment by certain retailers; providing for the imposition of administrative penalties.
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Texas 83rd Legislature Regular Session
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Relating to a sales and use tax refund for tangible personal property used to provide cable television service, Internet access service, or telecommunications services and to the exclusion of that property in certain economic development agreements. [HB-1133]
[Telecommunications ]
[Taxes ]
[Economic Development ]
Relating to a sales and use tax refund for tangible personal property used to provide cable television service, Internet access service, or telecommunications services and to the exclusion of that property in certain economic development agreements.
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Texas 83rd Legislature Regular Session
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Relating to the offense of the unauthorized duplication of certain recordings. [HB-1043]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Relating to the offense of the unauthorized duplication of certain recordings.
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Maryland 2012 Regular Session
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Communications Taxes - Reform Commission [SB-567]
[Telecommunications ]
[Taxes ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Economic Development ]
Establishing the Communications Tax Reform Commission; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Commission; prohibiting a member of the Commission from receiving specified compensation, but authorizing the reimbursement of specified expenses; requiring the Commission to assess the feasibility and fiscal implications of a competitively neutral communications tax and fee system that eliminates the disparate treatment of similar communications service providers; etc.
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Maryland 2012 Regular Session
Income Tax - Film Production Credit - Extension and Increase [SB-1066]
[Film Production ]
[Taxes ]
[Economic Development ]
[Arts and Culture ]
Extending, from July 1, 2014, to July 1, 2016, the termination provisions for the credit allowed against the State income tax for specified film production activities; increasing to $22,500,000, for fiscal years 2013 through 2016, the annual amount of film production activity tax credit certificates that the Secretary of Business and Economic Development may issue; etc.
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Maryland 2012 Regular Session
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Communications Taxes - Reform Commission [HB-563]
[Telecommunications ]
[Taxes ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Economic Development ]
Establishing the Communications Tax Reform Commission; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Commission; prohibiting a member of the Commission from receiving specified compensation, but authorizing the reimbursement of specified expenses; requiring the Commission to assess the feasibility and fiscal implications of a competitively neutral communications tax and fee system that eliminates the disparate treatment of similar communications service providers; etc.
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Louisiana 2012 Regular Legislative Session
Requires certain communication companies to offer local channel access through their networks [HB-780]
[Telecommunications ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Media and Advertising ]
Requires certain communication companies to offer local channel access through their networks
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Louisiana 2011 Regular Session
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Memorializes congress to require that satellite television providers broadcast local television stations [HCR-68]
[Telecommunications ]
[Media and Advertising ]
Memorializes congress to require that satellite television providers broadcast local television stations
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Maryland 2011 Regular Session
Access of Garrett County Residents to the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. [SJR-2]
[Telecommunications ]
Expressing concern that Garrett County residents are unable to receive broadcasts from Baltimore and Washington, D.C. television stations; and urging the Maryland Delegation to Congress to encourage the Federal Communications Commission to amend its television market determination regulations, and to sponsor and support any legislation in the United States Congress to provide Garrett County residents with a choice to receive broadcasts from stations located in Baltimore, Washington, D.C., or Pittsburgh.
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Maryland 2011 Regular Session
Election Law - Campaign Advertisements - Closed Captioning [SB-22]
[Elections ]
[Voting Rights ]
[Telecommunications ]
[Media and Advertising ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Disabilities ]
Requiring a specified campaign finance entity to include closed captioning for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing in campaign advertisements that are distributed by broadcast or cable television or on its Web site; providing exemptions; specifying the factors to be considered when applying the undue hardship exemption; prohibiting a specified campaign finance entity from distributing a campaign advertisement by broadcast or cable radio, unless specified conditions are met; etc.
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Maryland 2011 Regular Session
Inclusion of Garrett County in the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Television [HJR-2]
[Telecommunications ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Media and Advertising ]
Expressing concern that Garrett County residents are unable to receive broadcasts from Baltimore and Washington, D.C. television stations; urging the Maryland Delegation to Congress to work with the Federal Communications Commission to amend its television market determination regulations to allow Garrett County residents to view Baltimore and Washington, D.C. stations; and urging the Maryland Delegation to work to pass any necessary legislation in the U.S. Congress to allow Garrett County residents to view these stations.
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Maryland 2011 Regular Session
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Election Law - Independent Expenditures and Electioneering Communications - [HB-93]
[Elections ]
[Voting Rights ]
Altering the definition of "independent expenditure"; authorizing the State Board of Elections to audit specified independent expenditure reports and specified electioneering communication reports; requiring a person to file an independent expenditure or electioneering communication report after the person makes aggregate expenditures of more than $10,000 in an election cycle for campaign material that is a public communication; etc.
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Maryland 2011 Regular Session
Deficit Reduction Financing Act of 2011 [HB-1294]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Healthcare ]
[Science ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Repealing law providing for the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund, the Stem Cell Research Commission, and State-funded stem cell research; repealing laws relating to senatorial and delegate scholarships; altering or repealing grant programs; altering the distribution of specified revenues; altering the distribution of highway user revenues for fiscal year 2012; stating the intent of the General Assembly regarding constraining spending in the State budget by implementation of specified actions; etc.