Texas Utilities Code
§ 56.108 — SELECTION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS RELAY ACCESS SERVICE CARRIER
UT § 56.108Title 2. PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATORY ACT · Part C. TELECOMMUNICATIONS UTILITIES · Ch. 56. TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSISTANCE AND UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND · Art. D. STATEWIDE TELECOMMUNICATIONS RELAY ACCESS SERVICE
Statute text
View on source(a)The commission shall select one telecommunications carrier to provide the statewide telecommunications relay access service.
(b)The commission shall make a written award of the contract to the telecommunications carrier whose proposal is the most advantageous to this state, considering:
(1)price;
(2)the interests of the community of persons with an impairment of hearing or speech in having access to a high quality and technologically advanced telecommunications system; and
(3)any other factor listed in the commission's request for proposals.
(c)The commission shall consider each proposal in a manner that does not disclose the contents of the proposal to a telecommunications carrier making a competing proposal.
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Legislative history
Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.