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.