By: Lucio S.B. No. 915 73R3495 CBH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the establishment of an education tariff for certain 1-3 telecommunications services. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Article XIV, Public Utility Regulatory Act 1-6 (Article 1446c, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by 1-7 adding Section 96B to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 96B. (a) The commission by rule shall establish a 1-9 reduced tariff rate for each telecommunications service provided to 1-10 a primary, secondary, or higher educational institution in this 1-11 state that is directly related to distance learning activities. 1-12 (b) The commission shall set the reduced rate at an amount 1-13 sufficient to encourage the development and offering of distance 1-14 learning activities. 1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.