Amend HB 735 (Senate committee printing) by striking SECTIONS 14 and 15 (page 5, lines 35 through 66) and substituting: SECTION 14. (a) The assessment imposed under Section 57.048, Utilities Code, for the calendar quarter ending in September 2008 is due on the last day of October 2008. The assessment imposed under that section may not be imposed after the end of the calendar quarter ending in September 2008. (b) 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) 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 September 1, 2008.