By Chavez H.B. No. 83 76R1473 JJT-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to change due for payments made to a pay telephone. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter H, Chapter 55, Utilities Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Section 55.1775 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 55.1775. A provider shall equip the provider's pay 1-7 telephones so that each pay telephone is capable of making correct 1-8 change for a customer who deposits an amount greater than the cost 1-9 of the customer's coin sent-paid call. 1-10 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.