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House Bill 2207 |
House Author: Oliveira |
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Effective: 6-17-11 |
Senate Sponsor: Lucio |
Previous law established that the first lien against the revenue of an electric or gas utility system owned by a municipality with a population of more than one million that secures the payment of public securities issued or obligations incurred for municipal utilities, parks, or swimming pools applies to funding for a bill payment assistance program for utility system customers who have been threatened with disconnection from service for nonpayment of bills and who have been determined by the municipality to be low-income customers. House Bill 2207 amends the Government Code to instead apply that lien against the revenue of an electric, water, sewer, solid waste disposal, drainage, or natural gas utility system owned by a municipality with a population of more than one million but less than two million.
Current law makes provisions relating to the management of certain encumbered municipal water systems applicable to a home-rule municipality that owns or may own a water, wastewater, storm water, or drainage utility system, by ordinance elects to have the management and control of two or more such utility systems governed by those provisions, and meets certain other requirements. The bill makes those provisions applicable to such a municipality that makes the election by charter. The bill authorizes a municipality by ordinance to grant a board of trustees to which it has transferred management and control of two or more of its water, wastewater, storm water, or drainage utility systems authority to set rates and related terms for the systems.