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            relating to the process for initiating, transferring, or  | 
         
         
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            terminating water or sewer service. | 
         
         
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                   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
         
         
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                   SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 13, Water Code, is amended  | 
         
         
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            by adding Section 13.152 to read as follows: | 
         
         
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                   Sec. 13.152.  INITIATION, TRANSFER, OR TERMINATION OF  | 
         
         
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            SERVICE.  A retail public utility may initiate, transfer, or  | 
         
         
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            terminate a customer's retail water or sewer service on receipt of a  | 
         
         
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            customer request by mail, by telephone, through an Internet  | 
         
         
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            website, or through another electronic transmission. | 
         
         
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                   SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | 
         
         
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               President of the Senate | 
            Speaker of the House      | 
         
         
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                   I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1778 passed the Senate on  | 
         
         
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            April 27, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0. | 
         
         
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            Secretary of the Senate     | 
         
         
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                   I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1778 passed the House on  | 
         
         
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            May 9, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 139, Nays 3, two present  | 
         
         
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            not voting. | 
         
         
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            Chief Clerk of the House    | 
         
         
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            Approved: | 
         
         
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                      Governor |