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Senate Bill 773 |
Senate Author: Zaffirini et al. |
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Effective: 9-1-11 |
House Sponsor: Gallego et al. |
Current law requires an incumbent local exchange company that elects to be subject to incentive regulation and to make the corresponding infrastructure commitment to provide, on customer request, private network services to specified entities. Senate Bill 773 amends the Utilities Code to add a health center, defined by the bill as a federally qualified health center service delivery site, to the list of entities that may request such services. Current law prohibits an electing company from setting tariff rates or rates for certain services higher than a specified percentage of the service's statewide average long run incremental cost, or the service's long run incremental cost, as appropriate, including installation. The bill increases from 105 percent to 110 percent the maximum allowable percentage of cost under those provisions. The bill, under provisions governing incentive regulation and the corresponding infrastructure plan, extends from January 1, 2012, to January 1, 2016, the date before which an electing company's rates for private network services may not be increased. The bill also extends from January 1, 2012, to January 1, 2016, the date through which an electing company must comply with provisions relating to an infrastructure commitment to certain entities.