By:  Tallas                                            H.B. No. 133
       73R476 DWS-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to rates for electric service to certain residential
    1-3  buildings.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  The Public Utility Regulatory Act (Article 1446c,
    1-6  Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) is amended by adding Section 45A to
    1-7  read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 45A.  An electric utility shall charge a residential
    1-9  customer the residential rate for service provided to each of the
   1-10  customer's buildings located on the same property as the customer's
   1-11  residence, unless the building is used for commercial purposes.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-13        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-15  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
   1-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.