By: Wilson H.B. No. 1700 73R5638 SMH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a requirement that pay telephones receive incoming 1-3 telephone calls. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Article XIII, Public Utility Regulatory Act 1-6 (Article 1446c, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by 1-7 adding Section 93A to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 93A. (a) A pay telephone service provider shall ensure 1-9 that each pay telephone is capable of receiving incoming telephone 1-10 calls, regardless of the point of origin. 1-11 (b) The commission shall enforce this section regardless of 1-12 whether the pay telephone service provider is a telecommunications 1-13 utility regulated under this Act. 1-14 (c) The commission may adopt rules and establish procedures 1-15 to enforce this section. 1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.