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.