By Lewis of Orange H.B. No. 1935 74R5852 CBH-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to single certification of an area served by a 1-3 municipality and certain retail public utilities. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 13.255(j), Water Code, is amended to read 1-6 as follows: 1-7 (j) This section shall apply only in a case where: 1-8 (1) the retail public utility that is authorized to 1-9 serve in the certificated area that is annexed or incorporated by 1-10 the municipality is a nonprofit water supply or sewer service 1-11 corporation or a special utility district that converted from a 1-12 nonprofit water supply or sewer service corporation under Chapter 1-13 65, Water Code; or 1-14 (2) the retail public utility that is authorized to 1-15 serve in the certificated area that is annexed or incorporated by 1-16 the municipality is a retail public utility, other than a nonprofit 1-17 water supply or sewer service corporation, and whose service area 1-18 is located entirely within the boundaries of a municipality with a 1-19 population of 1.7 million or more according to the most recent 1-20 federal census. 1-21 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.