Amend HB 735 (house committee printing) as follows: (1) On page 1, strike lines 5-8 and substitute: SECTION 1. (a) The following are repealed on the effective date of this Act as provided by Section 15 of this Act: (1) Subchapter E, Chapter 32, Education Code; and (2) Section 441.1385, Government Code. (b) Effective October 1, 2007, Subchapter C, Chapter 57, Utilities Code, is repealed. (2) On page 12, strike lines 7-26 and substitute: SECTION 14. (a) If this Act takes effect immediately as provided by Section 15 of this Act: (1) the assessment imposed under Section 57.048, Utilities Code, for the calendar quarter ending in July 2007 is due on the last day of August 2007; (2) the assessment may not be imposed after the end of the calendar quarter ending in July 2007; and (3) Section 57.048, Utilities Code, is continued in effect for the collection of the assessment due and for civil and criminal enforcement of the liability for that assessment. (b) If this Act takes effect September 1 as provided by Section 15 of this Act: (1) the assessment imposed under Section 57.048, Utilities Code, for the calendar quarter ending in September 2007 is due on the last day of October 2007; (2) the assessment may not be imposed after the end of the calendar quarter ending in September 2007; and (3) Section 57.048, Utilities Code, is continued in effect for the collection of the assessment due and for civil and criminal enforcement of the liability for that assessment. (c) Regardless of the date on which this Act takes effect, a telecommunications utility or commercial mobile service provider subject to Section 57.048, Utilities Code, may recover from the utility's customers through a monthly billing process the amount of the assessment imposed under that section as provided by Subsection (f) of that section, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. SECTION 15. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2007.