Texas Utilities Code - Section 56.026. Universal Service Fund Disbursements
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§ 56.026. UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND DISBURSEMENTS. (a) A
revenue requirement showing is not required for a disbursement from
the universal service fund under this subchapter.
(b) The commission shall make each disbursement from the
universal service fund promptly and efficiently so that a
telecommunications provider does not experience an unnecessary
cash-flow change as a result of a change in governmental policy.
Subsecs. (c) to (e) effective until August 31, 2007
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, if an
electing company reduces rates in conjunction with receiving
disbursements from the universal service fund, the commission may
not reduce the amount of those disbursements, except that:
(1) if a local end user customer of the electing
company switches to another local service provider that serves the
customer entirely through the use of its own facilities and not
partially or solely through the use of unbundled network elements,
the electing company's disbursement may be reduced by the amount
attributable to that customer under Section 56.021(1); or
(2) if a local end user customer of the electing
company switches to another local service provider, and the new
local service provider serves the customer partially or solely
through the use of unbundled network elements provided by the
electing company, the electing company's disbursement attributable
to that customer under Section 56.021(1) may be reduced only if the
commission establishes an equitable allocation formula for the
disbursement.
(d) Any reductions in switched access service rates for
local exchange companies with more than 125,000 access lines in
service in this state on December 31, 1998, that are made in
accordance with this section shall be proportional, based on
equivalent minutes of use, to reductions in intraLATA toll rates,
and those reductions shall be offset by equal disbursements from
the universal service fund under Section 56.021(1). To the extent
that the disbursements from the universal service fund under
Section 56.021(1) for small and rural local exchange companies are
used to decrease the implicit support in intraLATA toll and
switched access rates, the decrease shall be made in a
competitively neutral manner.
(e) This subsection and Subsections (c) and (d) expire
August 31, 2007.
Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997. Amended
by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1212, § 25, eff. Sept. 1, 1999; Acts
2005, 79th Leg., 2nd C.S., ch. 2, § 14, eff. Sept. 1, 2005.
Section: 56.001 56.002 56.021 56.022 56.023 56.024 56.025 56.026 56.028 56.029 56.030 56.031 56.032 56.101 56.102
Last modified: August 10, 2007
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