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.