1-1  By:  Brimer (Senate Sponsor - Moncrief)               H.B. No. 2199
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 13, 1993;
    1-3  May 14, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural
    1-4  Resources; May 21, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:
    1-5  Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 21, 1993, sent to printer.)
    1-6                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-7                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-8        Sims               x                               
    1-9        Truan              x                               
   1-10        Armbrister         x                               
   1-11        Barrientos                                    x    
   1-12        Bivins             x                               
   1-13        Brown              x                               
   1-14        Carriker                                      x    
   1-15        Lucio              x                               
   1-16        Montford           x                               
   1-17        Ratliff                                       x    
   1-18        Shelley            x                               
   1-19                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-20                                AN ACT
   1-21  relating to the appellate jurisdiction of the Texas Water
   1-22  Commission.
   1-23        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-24        SECTION 1.  Section 13.043(j), Water Code, is amended to read
   1-25  as follows:
   1-26        (j)  In an appeal under this section, the commission shall
   1-27  ensure that every rate made, demanded, or received by any retail
   1-28  public utility or by any two or more retail public utilities
   1-29  jointly shall be just and reasonable.  Rates shall not be
   1-30  unreasonably preferential, prejudicial, or discriminatory but shall
   1-31  be sufficient, equitable, and consistent in application to each
   1-32  class of customers.  The commission shall use a methodology that
   1-33  preserves the financial integrity of the retail public utility.
   1-34  The commission shall consider the terms of any wholesale water or
   1-35  sewer service agreement in an appellate rate proceeding.
   1-36        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-37        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-38  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-39  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-40  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-41  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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   1-43                                                         Austin,
   1-44  Texas
   1-45                                                         May 21, 1993
   1-46  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-47  President of the Senate
   1-48  Sir:
   1-49  We, your Committee on Natural Resources to which was referred H.B.
   1-50  No. 2199, have had the same under consideration, and I am
   1-51  instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
   1-52  that it do pass and be printed.
   1-53                                                         Sims,
   1-54  Chairman
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   1-56                               WITNESSES
   1-57  No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 2199.