By: Montford S.B. No. 1490
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the provision of utility service to certain political
1-2 subdivisions.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 51, Public Utility Regulatory Act
1-5 (Article 1446c, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by
1-6 adding Subsection (a)(4) as follows:
1-7 Sec. 51(a) A public utility is not required to secure a
1-8 certificate of public convenience and necessity for:
1-9 (1) an extension into territory contiguous to that
1-10 already served by it and not receiving similar service from another
1-11 public utility and not within the area of public convenience and
1-12 necessity of another utility of the same kind;
1-13 (2) an extension within or to territory already served
1-14 by it or to be served by it under a certificate of public
1-15 convenience and necessity; <or>
1-16 (3) operation, extension, or service in progress on
1-17 the effective date of this Act<.>; or
1-18 (4) the provision of service, upon request, to a
1-19 political subdivision of the state created under Article XVI,
1-20 Section 59, of the Texas Constitution, which political subdivision
1-21 is located within the drainage area of the Colorado River basin
1-22 above the east line of Coleman County.
1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-6 passage, and it is so enacted.