Enrolled Bill Summary

Senate Bill 480	Senate Author:  Hinojosa et al.
Effective:  9-1-05	House Sponsor:  West, George "Buddy"

            Senate Bill 480 amends the Natural Resources Code and the Utilities Code relating to the authority of a city to assess charges for certain pipeline facilities. The bill limits the charges a city may assess a hazardous liquid or carbon dioxide pipeline facility or a gas pipeline facility on, along, or across a public way, to an annual charge that does not exceed a city's regulatory costs related to the pipeline facility and charges to recover repair costs for damage to city‑maintained public ways caused by pipeline activities. The bill provides for appealing a city charge and for collection of a charge. The bill establishes the circumstances in which a city is required to pay to relocate a gas pipeline facility and in which a gas pipeline facility owner or operator is required to pay.