By Uher H.B. No. 1579 75R5532 CBH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the collection of the assessment for the 1-3 telecommunications infrastructure fund. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 3.606, Public Utility Regulatory Act of 1-6 1995 (Article 1446c-0, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended 1-7 by adding Subsection (w) to read as follows: 1-8 (w) A telecommunications utility or a commercial mobile 1-9 service provider that recovers from its customers all or part of 1-10 the amount of the assessment imposed under this section may not 1-11 include a charge for that recovery in a rate charged a political 1-12 subdivision of this state. This subsection does not authorize a 1-13 telecommunications utility to recover an assessment imposed by this 1-14 section that the utility could not otherwise recover. 1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and 1-16 applies to a rate charged a political subdivision of this state on 1-17 or after that date. A rate charged a political subdivision of this 1-18 state before that date is governed by the law in effect on the 1-19 date the rate is charged, and that law is continued in effect for 1-20 that purpose. 1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.