Official Text and Analysis.

• Modifies certain application and notification requirements for the Public Works Board's (PWB) broadband service expansion grant and loan program (program). • Creates a pre-application process for the program. • Removes the requirement for the Utilities and Transportation Commission to provide an assessment of the technical feasibility of a proposed application. • Authorizes the PWB to make low-interest or interest-free loans or grants for certain emergency public works broadband projects. • Exempts financial and commercial information and records supplied in program pre-applications and applications from public disclosure..