Bill Text: TX HB2622 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the elimination of certain tariff filing requirements for telecommunications providers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-24 - Left pending in committee [HB2622 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2622-Introduced.html
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By: Hancock | H.B. No. 2622 |
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relating to the elimination of certain tariff filing requirements | ||
for telecommunications providers. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 52, Utilities Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 52.007 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 52.007. TARIFF REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO PROVIDERS NOT | ||
SUBJECT TO RATE OF RETURN REGULATION. (a) This section applies only | ||
to a telecommunications provider that is not subject to rate of | ||
return regulation under Chapter 53. | ||
(b) A telecommunications provider: | ||
(1) is not required to maintain on file with the | ||
commission tariffs, price lists, or customer service agreements | ||
governing the terms of providing service; | ||
(2) may make changes in its tariffs, price lists, and | ||
customer service agreements without commission approval; and | ||
(3) may cross-reference its federal tariff in its | ||
state tariff if the provider's intrastate switched access rates are | ||
the same as the provider's interstate switched access rates. | ||
(c) A telecommunications provider may withdraw a tariff, | ||
price list, or customer service agreement not required to be filed | ||
or maintained with the commission under this section if the | ||
telecommunications provider: | ||
(1) files written notice of the withdrawal with the | ||
commission; and | ||
(2) provides written notice to its customers of the | ||
rates, terms, and conditions of the services affected by the | ||
withdrawn tariff, price list, or agreement or posts the rates, | ||
terms, and conditions on the telecommunications provider's | ||
Internet website. | ||
(d) This section does not affect the authority of the | ||
commission to administer or enforce Chapter 56 or any other | ||
applicable price regulation permitted or required under this title. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |