By West S.B. No. 1251 76R8611 DWS-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to discontinuance of basic local telecommunications 1-3 service. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 55, Utilities Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 55.012 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 55.012. LIMITATIONS ON DISCONTINUANCE OF BASIC LOCAL 1-8 TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE. (a) A provider of basic local 1-9 telecommunications service may not discontinue that service because 1-10 of nonpayment by a residential customer of charges for long 1-11 distance service. 1-12 (b) Notwithstanding Sections 52.102 and 52.152, the 1-13 commission has all jurisdiction necessary to enforce this section. 1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.