Amend CSHB 789 by adding the following appropriately number 
SECTION to the bill and renumbering the subsequent SECTIONS of the 
bill as appropriate:
	SECTION ____.  Subchapter A, Chapter 57, Utilities Code, is 
amended by adding Section 57.004 to read as follows:
	Sec. 57.004.  RESALE BY CERTAIN ENTITIES.  (a)  This section 
applies only to the Texas-Louisiana border region.
	(b)  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a public 
junior college or other institution of higher education, as defined 
by Section 61.003, Education Code, may resell at a discounted rate 
high-speed access to the Internet to an industrial development 
corporation created under the Development Corporation Act of 1979 
(Article 5190.6, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) or another local 
governmental entity if there is no provider of private high-speed 
Internet services that provides those services in the boundaries of 
the corporation or governmental entity, not including a provider of 
cable services.  The corporation or other local governmental entity 
may use the high-speed Internet access only for economic 
development purposes.