82R5542 JXC-D
By: Carona S.B. No. 984
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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withdrawn tariff, price list, or agreement or posts the rates,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.