VA Praises Calif. Bill on Telehealth Zero-Rating
The Veterans Affairs Department is “encouraged” that California legislators are “considering the needs of Veterans and explicitly exempting VA telehealth applications from its zero rating restrictions,” a spokesperson emailed us Thursday. State Assembly Republicans proposed a bill last week to…
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carve out veterans’ telehealth apps from the state’s net neutrality law (see 2201200057). After the open-internet law took effect last year, the VA talked with California officials and ISPs, the spokesperson said. A California DOJ spokesperson emailed, “We had conversations with the Department of Veterans Affairs when this issue arose.”