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.