Bill Text: TX SB986 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to deregulation of certain telecommunications markets and companies.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-04-26 - Referred to State Affairs [SB986 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB986-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to deregulation of certain telecommunications markets and companies.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-04-26 - Referred to State Affairs [SB986 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB986-Introduced.html
82R8402 JXC-D | ||
By: Carona | S.B. No. 986 |
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relating to deregulation of certain telecommunications markets and | ||
companies. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 65.051, Utilities Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 65.051. MARKETS DEREGULATED. A market that is | ||
deregulated as of September 1, 2011, shall remain deregulated. | ||
Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, the commission | ||
may not reregulate a market or company that has been deregulated. | ||
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SECTION 2. Sections 65.052(a), (b), and (c), Utilities | ||
Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) An incumbent local exchange company may petition the | ||
commission to deregulate a market of the company that the | ||
commission previously determined should remain regulated. | ||
Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, only the | ||
incumbent local exchange company may initiate a proceeding to | ||
deregulate one of the company's markets. Not later than the 90th day | ||
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(1) determine whether the regulated [ |
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(2) issue a final order classifying the market | ||
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(b) In making a determination under Subsection (a), the | ||
commission may not determine that a market should remain regulated | ||
if: | ||
(1) the population in the area included in the market | ||
is at least 100,000; or | ||
(2) the population in the area included in the market | ||
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incumbent local exchange company, there are at least two | ||
competitors operating in all or part of the market that [ |
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(A) are unaffiliated with the incumbent local | ||
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(B) provide voice communications service without | ||
regard to the delivery technology, including through: | ||
(i) Internet Protocol or a successor | ||
protocol; | ||
(ii) satellite; or | ||
(iii) a technology used by a wireless | ||
provider or a commercial mobile service provider, as that term is | ||
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(c) If the commission deregulates a market under this | ||
section and the deregulation results in a regulated or | ||
transitioning company no longer meeting the definition of a | ||
regulated or transitioning company, the commission shall issue an | ||
order reclassifying the company as a transitioning company or | ||
deregulated company, as those terms are defined by Section 65.002. | ||
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SECTION 3. Sections 65.052(d), (e), and (f), 65.054, and | ||
65.055, Utilities Code, are repealed. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |