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.