Amend Floor Amendment No. 1 by Duncan to CSSB 583 (senate committee printing) as follows:
(1) In SECTION 2 of the amendment on page 6, line 14, add the following new subsection immediately following proposed section 56.023(o), Utilities Code:
(p) If an incumbent local exchange company or cooperative is ineligible for support under a plan established under Section 56.021(1) for services in an exchange, a plan established under Section 56.021(1) may not provide support to any other telecommunications providers for services in that exchange, except that an eligible telecommunications provider that is receiving support under Section 56.021(1)(A) in that exchange shall continue to receive such support for a forty-eight-month period following the date the incumbent local exchange provider or cooperative ceases receiving support in that exchange. The support received by the eligible telecommunications provider during the forty-eight-month period shall be at the same monthly per-line support level in effect for that exchange as of the date the incumbent local exchange provider or cooperative ceases receiving funding in that exchange.
(2) Add the following appropriately numbered section to the amendment and renumber subsequent sections of the amendment appropriately:
SECTION ____. (a) The standing committee of the senate that has primary jurisdiction over telecommunications shall conduct an interim study regarding competitive local exchange carriers providing service as eligible telecommunications providers receiving support under Section 56.021(1)(A), Utilities Code.
(b) This section expires on January 1, 2015.