Bill Text: TX HB2835 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to monthly support received from the universal service fund.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-01 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB2835 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2835-Comm_Sub.html
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By: King of Hemphill, Keffer, et al. | H.B. No. 2835 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2835: | |||
By: Frullo | C.S.H.B. No. 2835 |
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relating to monthly support received from the universal service | ||
fund. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 56.032(b), (c), (d), (e), (f), and (h), | ||
Utilities Code, as added by Chapter 535 (H.B. 2603), Acts of the | ||
82nd Legislature, Regular Session, 2011, are amended to read as | ||
follows: | ||
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be made available from the Small and Rural Incumbent Local Exchange | ||
Company Universal Service Plan by any mechanism, including support | ||
reductions resulting from rate rebalancing approved by the | ||
commission, [ |
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after notice and an opportunity for hearing. In determining | ||
appropriate monthly [ |
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shall consider the adequacy of basic rates to support universal | ||
service. | ||
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support amounts as prescribed by a final order issued by the | ||
commission in the commission's Docket No. 39643 is entitled to | ||
continue to receive that monthly support until the support is | ||
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incumbent local exchange company that is not receiving frozen | ||
support amounts as described by Subsection (c) and is not an | ||
electing company under Chapter 58 or 59, the commission annually | ||
shall set the company's monthly support amounts for the following | ||
12 months by dividing by 12 the annualized support amount | ||
calculated under this subsection. The commission shall calculate | ||
the annualized amount: | ||
(1) for the initial 12-month period for which a | ||
company makes an election under this subsection, by[ |
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annualized support amount calculated by the commission by a factor | ||
equal to the percentage change in the consumer price index for the | ||
most recent 12-month period. | ||
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on the written request of the company, may initiate a proceeding to | ||
recalculate the most recent annualized support amount to be used as | ||
the basis for adjustment for a subsequent 12-month period under | ||
Subsection (d)(2). If, based on the recalculation, the commission | ||
by order adjusts a company's most recent annualized support amount, | ||
the adjusted support amount supersedes the annualized support | ||
amount calculated in accordance with Subsection (d). | ||
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commission shall establish monthly support amounts under | ||
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after the date the commission determines the company is eligible | ||
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(h) Subsections (a), (c), (d), (e), and (f) [ |
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and any monthly support amount approved under those subsections | ||
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SECTION 2. Section 3, Chapter 535 (H.B. 2603), Acts of the | ||
82nd Legislature, Regular Session, 2011, which amended Section | ||
56.031, Utilities Code, is repealed. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect August 31, 2013. |