By Bailey                                             H.B. No. 3723
         76R1502 JJT-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to required reporting of certain transactions of certain
 1-3     telecommunications utilities to the Public Utility Commission of
 1-4     Texas.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 51.010(c), Utilities Code, is amended to
 1-7     read as follows:
 1-8           (c)  Section 14.101 does not apply to [:]
 1-9                 [(1)]  a company that receives a certificate of
1-10     operating authority or a service provider certificate of operating
1-11     authority under Chapter 54[; or]
1-12                 [(2)  a company electing under Chapter 58].
1-13           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-14           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.