Tex. Utilities Code § 57.023: SERVICE AND RATE REQUIREMENTS.

The services and reduced rates must be designed to:

(1) encourage the development and offering of:

(A) distance learning activities by educational institutions; and

(B) information sharing programs of libraries;

(2) meet the:

(A) distance learning needs identified by the educational community; and

(B) information sharing needs identified by libraries; and

(3) recover the long run incremental costs of providing the services, to the extent those costs can be identified, to avoid subsidizing an educational institution or a library.

Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.