74R8176 DWS-F
          By Serna                                              H.B. No. 2773
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2773:
          By Seidlits                                       C.S.H.B. No. 2773
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to electric rate classification of a community college.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Article VI, Public Utility Regulatory Act
    1-5  (Article 1446c, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by
    1-6  adding Section 45A to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 45A.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act,
    1-8  if the regulatory authority approves electric rate classifications
    1-9  that place a university and a public school in different
   1-10  classifications, the regulatory authority shall require that a
   1-11  community college be included in the same classification as a
   1-12  public school.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-14        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-15  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-16  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-17  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-18  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.