Amend HB 232 as follows:                                                     
	On page 2, line 13, insert the following appropriately 
numbered section:     
	Section ____.  Section 56.022, Utilities Code, is amended to 
read as follows:
	Sec. 56.022.  UNIFORM CHARGE.  (a) The universal service fund 
is funded by a statewide uniform charge payable by each 
telecommunications provider that has access to the customer base.
	(b) A telecommunications provider shall pay the charge in 
accordance with procedures approved by the commission.
	(c) The uniform charge is on services and at rates the 
commission determines.  In establishing the charge and the services 
to which the charge will apply, the commission may not:
		(1) grant an unreasonable preference or advantage to a 
telecommunications provider;
		(2) assess the charge on pay telephone service; [or]         
		(3) subject a telecommunications provider to 
unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage[.]; or
		(4) assess a fee for the purposes Section 56.021 or 
Subchapter I of this Chapter that is in excess of 3.4% of taxable 
communications receipts.
	On page 3, line 4, strike the word "and";                                      
	On page 3, line 6, strike the "." and insert "; and";                          
	On page 3, between lines 6 and 7, insert the following 
subsection:           
		"(3) limit the grant program in accordance with Section 
56.022(c)(4) of this Chapter."