Tex. Util. Code § 56.103 · Subchapter D. STATEWIDE TELECOMMUNICATIONS RELAY ACCESS SERVICE
TELECOMMUNICATIONS RELAY ACCESS SERVICE REQUIREMENTS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The telecommunications relay access service shall provide a person with an impairment of hearing or speech with access to the telecommunications network in this state equivalent to the access provided other customers.
(b) The service consists of:
(1) switching and transmission of the call;
(2) live or automated verbal and print translations of communications between a person with an impairment of hearing or speech who uses a telecommunications device for the deaf or a similar automated device and a person who does not have such equipment; and
(3) other service enhancements proposed by the carrier and approved by the commission.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/UT/htm/UT.56.htm
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