Bill > A4100

Introduced Session

This bill establishes a statutory mechanism for supporting public, educational, and governmental channels which play an important role in the dissemination of public and community affairs, educational, cultural, instructional, and emergency information to the public at large within the State. This bill imposes on each streaming entertainment service provider an assessment at the rate of five percent of the streaming entertainment service provider's gross receipts. The bill further creates the "Streaming Entertainment Fund" and requires the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, in consultation with the New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority, to disperse moneys from the fund solely for the purpose of supporting public broadcasting and public, educational, and governmental channels. As used in the bill, "video streaming entertainment service" means any service that is delivered through facilities on or in part on the public rights-of-way that provides video programming primarily for the purpose of entertainment for a fee on a subscription basis to a customer. As used in the bill, the term shall not include any cable service defined in 47 U.S.C. s.522(6).

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Linda Carter (D)*, 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Telecommunications and Utilities Committee (on 02/19/2026)

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