H.B. No. 2199
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the appellate jurisdiction of the Texas Water
    1-3  Commission.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 13.043(j), Water Code, is amended to read
    1-6  as follows:
    1-7        (j)  In an appeal under this section, the commission shall
    1-8  ensure that every rate made, demanded, or received by any retail
    1-9  public utility or by any two or more retail public utilities
   1-10  jointly shall be just and reasonable.  Rates shall not be
   1-11  unreasonably preferential, prejudicial, or discriminatory but shall
   1-12  be sufficient, equitable, and consistent in application to each
   1-13  class of customers.  The commission shall use a methodology that
   1-14  preserves the financial integrity of the retail public utility.
   1-15  For agreements between municipalities the commission shall consider
   1-16  the terms of any wholesale water  or sewer service agreement in an
   1-17  appellate rate proceeding.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-19        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-20  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-21  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-22  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-23  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.