RI Senate Panel OKs Net Neutrality Bill
A Rhode Island net neutrality bill is headed to the full Senate. The Commerce Committee voted 6-1 for SB-342 with technical changes at a hybrid hearing Thursday. Similar measures passed the Senate in 2018 and 2019, stalling in the House…
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(see 2104290077). The Senate could vote as soon as Tuesday, SB-342 sponsor Sen. Louis DiPalma (D) told us. DiPalma expects it to get “overwhelming support as it has in the past.” He's “cautiously optimistic” about passing the bill in the House, which has a different speaker from the previous years when the bill died; the session ends June 30. DiPalma would welcome a federal law that supersedes this: Even if the FCC reverses its past net neutrality decision, it’s important to write the policy into law.