Amend the Counts amendment to CSSB 560 (page 27 of the
packet) to read as follows:
      Amend CSSB 560 by adding a new appropriately numbered Section
to read as follows and renumbering subsequent Sections accordingly:
      SECTION     . Subchapter E, Chapter 54, Utilities Code, is
amended by adding Section 54.2025 to read as follows:
      Sec. 54.2025. LEASE OF FIBER OPTIC CABLE FACILITIES. 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, nonpreferential basis.