Amend CSHB 789 as follows:                                                   
	(1)  On page 2, line 16, strike "basic".                                       
	(2)  On page 44, between lines 23 and 24, insert the 
following:              
	(b-1)  The commission shall adopt rules requiring 
certificated providers to implement procedures to ensure that all 
consumers are clearly informed both orally and in writing of the 
existence of the telephone lifeline service program when they 
request or initiate service or change service locations or 
providers. By June 1, 2006, the commission shall enter into a 
memorandum of understanding with the Texas Health and Human 
Services Commission and, to the maximum extent feasible, housing 
authorities in the principal cities of each metropolitan 
statistical area, to improve enrollment rates in the telephone 
lifeline service program.
	(3)  On page 45, strike line 12–22 and substitute the 
following:       
	(d-1)  A certificated provider of local exchange telephone 
service shall provide access to lifeline service to a customer 
whose income is not more than 150 percent of the applicable income 
level established by the federal poverty guidelines or in whose 
household resides a person who receives or has a child that 
receives:
		(1)  Medicaid;                                                         
		(2)  food stamps;                                                      
		(3)  Supplemental Security Income;                                     
		(4)  federal public housing assistance;                                
		(5)  Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) 
assistance;  
		(6)  health insurance benefits through the Children's 
Health Insurance Program (CHIP); or
		(7)  free or reduced-price lunches through the national 
school lunch program.
	(4)  On page 45, line 22, between lines 22 and 23, insert the 
following:     
		(d-2)  A certificated local exchange telephone service 
shall provide consumers who apply for or receive lifeline service 
access to available vertical services or custom calling features, 
including caller ID, call waiting, and call blocking, at the same 
price as other consumers. Lifeline discounts shall only apply to 
that portion of the bill that is for basic network service.