RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 437 (HB 617) 2024 Regular Session Deshotel
Existing law provides for the Granting Unserved Municipalities Broadband Opportunities
1.0, or GUMBO 1.0, program.
New law provides that the office of broadband and connectivity may use any unobligated
funds from GUMBO 1.0 as of June 3, 2024, for eligible nonbroadband infrastructure project
uses defined in the U.S. Treasury document titled "Guidance for the Coronavirus Capital
Project Fund, for States, Territories and Freely Associated States". The office may
promulgate rules and scoring criteria for these funds.
Effective August 1, 2024.
(Adds R.S. 51:2370.17)