83rd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 628, Chapter 552 Page: 9 of 19
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S.B. No. 628
1 time as the service charge to the service user in accordance with
2 the service supplier's regular billing practice. A business
3 service user that provides residential facilities and owns or
4 leases a publicly or privately owned telephone switch used to
5 provide telephone service to facility residents shall collect the
6 9-1-1 emergency service fee and transmit the fees monthly to the
7 district.
8 (b) The amount collected by a service supplier from the fee
9 is due quarterly. The service supplier shall remit the amount
10 collected in a calendar quarter to the district not later than the
11 60th day after the last day of the calendar quarter. With each
12 payment, the service supplier shall file a return in a form
13 prescribed by the board.
14 (c) Both a service supplier and a business service user
15 under Subsection (a) shall maintain records of the amount of fees
16 the service supplier or business service user collects until at
17 least the second anniversary of the date of collection. The board
18 may require, at the board's expense, an annual audit of the service19 supplier's or business service user's books and records with
20 respect to the collection and remittance of the fees.
21 (d) A business service user that does not collect and remit
22 the 9-1-1 emergency service fee as required is subject to a civil
23 cause of action under Subsection (q). A sworn affidavit by the
24 district specifying the unremitted fees is prima facie evidence
25 that the fees were not remitted and of the amount of the unremitted
26 fees.
27 (e) A service supplier may retain an administrative fee of9
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Texas. Legislature. Senate. 83rd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 628, Chapter 552, legislative document, June 14, 2013; [Austin, Texas]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth437965/m1/9/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.