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Senate Bill 776 |
Senate Author: Fraser |
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Effective: 9-1-15 |
House Sponsor: Kacal et al. |
Senate Bill 776 amends the Public Utilities Regulatory Act and other provisions of the Utilities Code to require a municipally owned utility or a municipal power agency to obtain a certificate of convenience and necessity from the Public Utility Commission of Texas before building a transmission facility outside of its boundaries, and excepts certain transmission facilities from this provision. Among other provisions, the bill establishes an alternate form of governance for certain municipal power agencies, such as the Texas Municipal Power Agency, and authorizes such an agency's participating public entities to elect to apply this form of governance to the agency.