Minnesota Statutes Telecommunications (Ch. 237, 238) § 237.066. State government pricing plans

Subdivision 1. Purpose. A state government or Tribal government telecommunications pricing plan is authorized and found to be in the public interest as it will:

Subd. 2. Program participation. A state government or Tribal government telecommunications pricing plan may be available to serve individually or collectively: state agencies; Tribal governments; educational institutions, including public schools and Tribal schools complying withsection 120A.05, subdivision 9,11,13, or17, and nonpublic schools complying withsections 120A.22,120A.24, and120A.41; private colleges; public corporations; and political subdivisions of the state or a Tribal Nation. Plans shall be available to carry out the commissioner of administration's duties undersections 16E.17and16E.18and shall also be available to those entities not using the commissioner for contracting for telecommunications services.

Subd. 3. Rates. Notwithstandingsection 237.09,237.14,237.60, subdivision 3, or237.74, a telephone company or a telecommunications carrier may, individually or in cooperation with other telephone companies or telecommunications carriers, develop and offer basic or advanced telecommunications services at discounted or reduced rates as a state government or Tribal government telecommunications pricing plan. Any telecommunications services provided under any state government or Tribal government telecommunications pricing plan shall be used exclusively by the entities described in subdivision 2 subject to the plan solely for the entities' own use and shall not be made available to any other entities by resale, sublease, or in any other way.

Subd. 4. Applicability to other customers. A telephone company or telecommunications carrier providing telecommunications services under a state government or Tribal government telecommunications pricing plan is not required to provide any other person or entity those services at the rates made available to the state or Tribal government.