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.