{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-utilities-code-56.108","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Utilities Code § 56.108","heading":"SELECTION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS RELAY ACCESS SERVICE CARRIER.","body":"(a) The commission shall select one telecommunications carrier to provide the statewide telecommunications relay access service.\n(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:\n(1) price;\n(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\n(3) any other factor listed in the commission's request for proposals.\n(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.\n(d) The commission's evaluation of a telecommunications carrier's proposal shall include the:\n(1) charges for the service;\n(2) service enhancements proposed by the carrier;\n(3) technological sophistication of the network proposed by the carrier; and\n(4) date proposed for beginning the service.\nActs 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.","path":["UTILITIES CODE","TITLE 2. PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATORY ACT","SUBTITLE C. TELECOMMUNICATIONS UTILITIES","CHAPTER 56. TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSISTANCE AND UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND","SUBCHAPTER D. STATEWIDE TELECOMMUNICATIONS RELAY ACCESS SERVICE"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/UT/htm/UT.56.htm#56.108","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:45Z","sha256":"44931691bf78cbc396ff4f4a9f263e556af5a0fdc464c5262eaf0e7c20c1c5a1","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-utilities-code-56.107","next":"us-tx/tex.-utilities-code-56.1085"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}