By Heflin H.B. No. 823
74R664 DWS
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the amount a hotel or motel may charge for a telephone
1-3 call.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 93B, Public Utility Regulatory Act
1-6 (Article 1446c, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read
1-7 as follows:
1-8 Sec. 93B. The amount a hotel or motel charges for a local
1-9 telephone call, a credit card telephone call, a collect telephone
1-10 call, or any other local telephone call for which assistance from
1-11 the hotel or motel operator is not required may not exceed $1 <50
1-12 cents>.
1-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.