By Craddick H.B. No. 1476 74R4303 CBH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the determination of the electrical load of an oil or 1-3 gas field or lease. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Article VI, Public Utility Regulatory Act 1-6 (Article 1446c, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by 1-7 adding Section 46A to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 46A. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, 1-9 in determining the customer class and corresponding rate applicable 1-10 to the provision of electricity to an oil or gas field or lease, 1-11 the field's or lease's electrical load is determined on a field or 1-12 lease basis regardless of the number of meters located in the field 1-13 or on the lease. 1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.