By:  Luna                                              S.B. No. 835
       73R6700 SMH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the posting of telephone numbers and notices on pay
    1-3  telephones; providing a penalty.
    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 a pay telephone that is incapable of receiving an incoming
   1-10  telephone call, regardless of the point of origin, does not have a
   1-11  telephone number placed on it.
   1-12        (b)  A pay telephone service provider commits an offense if
   1-13  the provider places a telephone number on a pay telephone that is
   1-14  incapable of receiving an incoming telephone call, regardless of
   1-15  the point of origin.  An offense under this subsection is a Class C
   1-16  misdemeanor.
   1-17        (c)  A pay telephone provider shall place on each pay
   1-18  telephone a notice that states:
   1-19        "The placement by a provider of pay telephone service
   1-20        of a telephone number on a pay telephone that is
   1-21        incapable of receiving incoming telephone calls,
   1-22        regardless of the point of origin, is a violation of
   1-23        state law.  On conviction, a fine of not more than $500
   1-24        may be imposed."
    2-1        (d)  The commission shall enforce this section regardless of
    2-2  whether the pay telephone service provider is a telecommunications
    2-3  utility regulated under this Act.
    2-4        (e)  The commission may adopt rules and establish procedures
    2-5  to enforce this section.
    2-6        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    2-7        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-8  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-9  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-10  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-11  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.