Amend the Counts amendment to CSSB 560 (page 27 of the
packet) by adding the following to the end of Subsection (b),
Section 54.2025, Utilities Code:
      Nothing in this subchapter shall prevent a municipality, or a
municipal electric system that is a member of a municipal power
agency formed under Chapter 163 by adoption of a concurrent
resolution by the participating municipalities on or before August
1, 1975, from leasing any of the excess capacity of its fiber optic
cable facilities (dark fiber), so long as the rental of the fiber
facilities is done on a nondiscriminatory, nonpreferental basis.