By Turner of Harris H.B. No. 2387
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the use of the money by the telecommunications
1-3 infrastructure board in the qualifying entities account of the
1-4 telecommunications infrastructure fund.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 3.606, Public Utility Regulatory Act of
1-7 1995 (Article 1446c-0, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended
1-8 by amending Subsection (p) to read as follows:
1-9 (p) The board shall use money in the public schools account
1-10 to award grants and loans in accordance with this section to fund
1-11 equipment, including computers, printers, computer labs, and video
1-12 equipment, for public schools and for intracampus and intercampus
1-13 wiring to enable those public schools to use the equipment. The
1-14 board shall use money in the qualifying entities account for any
1-15 purpose authorized by this section, including equipment, wiring,
1-16 material, program development, training, or installation costs[, or
1-17 any statewide telecommunications network].
1-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.