1-1  By:  Moncrief                                          S.B. No. 675
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 8, 1993; March 9, 1993, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
    1-4  May 4, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6,
    1-5  Nays 0; May 4, 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.  Subsection (j), Section 13.043, Water Code, is
   1-25  amended to read 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 4, 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 S.B.
   1-50  No. 675, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
   1-51  to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
   1-52  pass and be printed.
   1-53                                                         Sims,
   1-54  Chairman
   1-55                               * * * * *
   1-56                               WITNESSES
   1-57                                                  FOR   AGAINST  ON
   1-58  ___________________________________________________________________
   1-59  Name:  Dean Robbins                                            x
   1-60  Representing:  Tx Water Commission
   1-61  City:  Austin
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