S.B. No. 498
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the continuation of the Public Utility Commission of
    1-2  Texas and the Office of Public Utility Counsel.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 5a, Public Utility Regulatory Act
    1-5  (Article 1446c, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read
    1-6  as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 5a.  SUNSET PROVISION.  The Public Utility Commission of
    1-8  Texas and the Office of Public Utility Counsel are subject to
    1-9  Chapter 325, Government Code (Texas Sunset Act).  Unless continued
   1-10  in existence as provided by that chapter, the commission and the
   1-11  office <Office of Public Utility Counsel> are abolished and this
   1-12  Act expires September 1, 1995 <1993>.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-14        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-15  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-16  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-17  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-18  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.