Sec. 56.103.  TELECOMMUNICATIONS RELAY ACCESS SERVICE REQUIREMENTS.  (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.
Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.