1-1 By: Shapleigh, Barrientos S.B. No. 1020 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 9, 1999; March 10, 1999, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development; 1-4 April 15, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, 1-5 Nays 0; April 15, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to telephone prepaid calling services; providing 1-9 penalties. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Subchapter J, Chapter 55, Utilities Code, is 1-12 amended by adding Section 55.253 to read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 55.253. TELEPHONE PREPAID CALLING SERVICES. (a) In 1-14 this section: 1-15 (1) "Prepaid calling card company" means a company 1-16 that provides a prepaid calling service to the public using its own 1-17 network or resold services. 1-18 (2) "Prepaid calling service" means a prepaid 1-19 telecommunications service that allows an end user to originate a 1-20 call using an access number and authorization code. 1-21 (b) The commission by rule may prescribe standards regarding 1-22 the information a prepaid calling card company shall disclose to 1-23 customers in relation to the rates and terms of service for prepaid 1-24 calling services offered in this state. 1-25 (c) The commission is granted all necessary jurisdiction to 1-26 adopt rules under this section and to enforce those rules and this 1-27 section. 1-28 (d) A violation of a rule adopted under this section is 1-29 subject to enforcement under Subchapter B, Chapter 15. 1-30 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-31 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-32 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-33 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-34 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-35 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-36 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-37 * * * * *