By: Luna S.B. No. 835 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the posting of telephone numbers and notices on pay 1-2 telephones; providing a penalty. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Article XIII, Public Utility Regulatory Act 1-5 (Article 1446c, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by 1-6 adding Section 93A to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 93A. (a) A pay telephone service provider may not 1-8 display a telephone number on a pay telephone that cannot receive a 1-9 telephone call. 1-10 (b) A pay telephone service provider shall place in a 1-11 conspicuous location on each pay telephone that cannot receive 1-12 telephone calls a notice stating in letters one-half inch 1-13 high: "THIS TELEPHONE CANNOT RECEIVE TELEPHONE CALLS." 1-14 (c) A pay telephone service provider that violates a 1-15 provision of this section or a rule or order adopted by the 1-16 commission under this section is subject to a civil penalty as 1-17 provided by Section 72 of this Act. 1-18 (d) The commission has jurisdiction over all pay telephone 1-19 service providers to the extent necessary to enforce this section 1-20 regardless of whether a pay telephone service provider is a 1-21 telecommunications utility regulated under this Act. 1-22 (e) The commission may adopt rules and establish procedures 1-23 to enforce this section. 1-24 SECTION 2. Subsection (a), Section 72, Public Utility 2-1 Regulatory Act (Article 1446c, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is 2-2 amended to read as follows: 2-3 (a) Any public utility, water supply or sewer service 2-4 corporation, customer-owned pay telephone service provider for 2-5 purposes of Section 93A of this Act, or affiliated interest that 2-6 knowingly violates a provision of this Act, fails to perform a duty 2-7 imposed on it, or fails, neglects, or refuses to obey an order, 2-8 rule, regulation, direction, or requirement of the commission or 2-9 decree or judgment of a court, shall be subject to a civil penalty 2-10 of not less than $1,000 nor more than $5,000 for each offense. 2-11 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect for all newly installed pay 2-12 telephones on September 1, 1993. For all pay telephones in service 2-13 prior to that date, this Act takes effect on January 1, 1994. 2-14 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.