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)  may, but 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 in relation to services that are not
	subject to regulation 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)  notifies its customers of the withdrawal and posts
	the current tariffs, price lists, or generic customer service
	agreements on the telecommunications provider's Internet website.
	(d)  The commission may not require a telecommunications
	provider to withdraw a tariff, price list, or customer service
	agreement.
	(e)  This section does not affect the authority of the
	commission to regulate wholesale services or administer or enforce
	Chapter 56 or any other applicable regulation permitted or required
	under this title.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.