Amend CSHB 1983 as follows: (1) On page 16, strike lines 26 through 27 and substitute the following: SECTION 1. Section 771.058, Health and Safety Code, is amended by amending Subsections (b) and (c) and adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: (2) On page 17, between lines 16 and 17, insert the following: (c) Participation in the regional plan by an emergency communication district does not affect the organization or operation of the district, except that the district may not collect an emergency communication fee or other special fee for 9-1-1 service not permitted by this chapter. Participation by the district in the plan does not affect the district's authority to set its own fees in the territory under its jurisdiction on January 1, 1988. Participation in the regional plan by a public agency or group of public agencies operating as an emergency communication district as provided by Subsection (d) does not affect the authority of the public agency or group of public agencies to set its own fees in territory: (1) under its jurisdiction at the time of recognition; or (2) added to the district after the recognition. (d) In a county with a population of 120,000 or less, a public agency or group of public agencies acting jointly that contracted with a service provider before September 1, 1987, to provide 9-1-1 service by resolution of its governing body may withdraw from a regional plan in which it chooses to participate. A public agency or group of public agencies that withdraws from a regional plan under this subsection shall be recognized and operate as an emergency communication district in the agency's or group's geographic jurisdiction. As an emergency communication district, the public agency or group of agencies: (1) is governed by Subchapter D, Chapter 772; and (2) may collect all fees authorized by that subchapter or other applicable law. (3) On page 30, between lines 6 and 7, insert an appropriately numbered section to read as follows and renumber the subsequent sections accordingly: SECTION ____. Section 772.304(a), Health and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows: (a) This subchapter applies only to a county with a population of more than 20,000 or to a group of two or more contiguous counties each with a population of 20,000 or more in which an emergency communication district was created under Chapter 288, Acts of the 69th Legislature, Regular Session, 1985, before January 1, 1988, or to a public agency or group of public agencies that withdraws from participation in a regional plan under Section 771.058(d).