Short-Lived Wireless Siting Bill Runs Out of Time in California
It’s the end of the line for the wireless infrastructure siting bill by California Assemblyman Mike Gatto (D), his office told us. Local government officials had bristled at AB-2788, which would have reduced local siting review for small-cell wireless infrastructure…
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to speed deployment of 5G services (see 1606210058). A Gatto spokesman said legislators ran out of time to get it through the legislature. The session ends Aug. 31, and the legislature has a July 1 deadline for working out final policy of bills, the spokesman said. AB-2788 was to receive its first hearing on Monday, which would have left only a week to work out final language, he said. The bill was still in flux, with Gatto listening to the local government concerns, he said. If the proposal is to live again next session, another legislator will have to raise it because this is Gatto’s last term. AB-2788 had a short life as a telecom bill; it was about oil and gas until June 13, when Gatto gutted the energy language and replaced it with the small-cells proposal (see 1606200043).