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By:  Geren (Senate Sponsor - Harris)                              H.B. No. 802
	(In the Senate - Received from the House April 14, 2003; 
April 15, 2003, read first time and referred to Committee on 
Business and Commerce; April 28, 2003, reported favorably by the 
following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 28, 2003, sent to printer.)


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT


relating to the number and location information requirements 
provided by business phones in certain 9-1-1 emergency 
communication districts.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 772.218, Health and Safety Code, is 
amended by amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsections (e), (f), 
(g), (h), and (i) to read as follows:
	(d)  A business service user that owns or leases a publicly 
or privately owned telephone switch used to provide telephone 
services to nonaffiliated businesses shall provide to those 
business end users the same level of 9-1-1 service that a service 
supplier is required to provide under Subsection (a) to other 
business end users in the district.
	(e)  A business service user that owns or leases a publicly 
or privately owned telephone switch used to consolidate telephone 
services at two or more physical addresses shall provide a level of 
9-1-1 service that identifies an accurate physical address and 
telephone number for each 9-1-1 call.  For purposes of this section, 
each floor of a multitenant building is a different physical 
address.
	(f)  A hotel, motel, or similar lodging facility that does 
not operate with a 24-hour, seven-day on-site telephone operator 
must use a system that furnishes the telephone number and location 
of the individual unit from which a 9-1-1 call is placed.
	(g)  A service supplier, [or] business service user, or 
lodging facility that implements the network and database 
enhancements necessary to provide a service described in [under] 
Subsection (b), (d), (e), or (f), including a supplier, user, or 
facility that is not required to provide the service, is not liable 
to a person who uses a 9-1-1 system created under this subchapter 
for the release to the district of the information specified in this 
section [Subsections (a) and (b)].
	(h)  Subsections (d) and (e) do not apply to a 
telecommunications system installed by a public school district or 
a state agency.
	(i)  Subsections (d), (e), and (f) apply only to a 
telecommunications system installed on or after September 1, 2003.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.                           



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