Sec. 56.104.  TELECOMMUNICATIONS RELAY ACCESS SERVICE CHARGES.  (a)  For a call made using the telecommunications relay access service, the person calling or called:
(1)  may not be charged for a call that originates and terminates in the same local calling area;  and
(2)  shall pay one-half of the total charges established by contract with the commission for intrastate interexchange calls.
(b)  Charges related to providing the service that, under Subsection (a), are not charged to a person calling or called shall be funded from the universal service fund, as specified by the service provider's contract with the commission.
(c)  A local exchange company may not impose an interexchange carrier access charge on a call using the service that originates and terminates in the same local calling area.
(d)  A local exchange company shall provide billing and collection services for the service at just and reasonable rates.
Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.