By Brimer H.B. No. 2199 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 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. Subsection (j), Section 13.043, Water Code, is 1-6 amended to read 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 The commission may consider the terms of any wholesale water or 1-16 sewer service agreement in an appellate rate proceeding. 1-17 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.