By: Henderson S.B. No. 1628
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to service and rates of a gas utility.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Subsection (d), Section 1, Article 6050, Revised
1-4 Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
1-5 (d) No person shall be deemed to be a "gas utility," "public
1-6 utility," or "utility" solely because such person is an affiliate
1-7 of such an entity. <The term "gas utility," "public utility," or
1-8 "utility" does not include a person not otherwise a gas utility
1-9 that transports gas on behalf of the state or a state agency or
1-10 institution.>
1-11 SECTION 2. The following are repealed:
1-12 (1) Section 6, Article 6050, Revised Statutes; and
1-13 (2) Subsection (b), Section 1, Article 6053, Revised
1-14 Statutes.
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,
1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-22 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
1-23 Amend S.B. 1628 on page 1, line 7, by inserting the following
1-24 after "entity" and before the period:
2-1 nor shall any regulatory authority find that the cost of service of
2-2 such an entity includes any element not caused by the utility
2-3 service of such an entity
2-4 Holzheauser
2-5 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 2
2-6 Amend S.B. 1628 on by inserting the following new SECTION 3:
2-7 SECTION 3. Article 6053, Revised Statutes, is amended to add
2-8 Sec. 3, as follows:
2-9 Sec. 3. CONSTRUCTION. Any rate which complies with Section
2-10 5.02(b) of Article 1446(e), Revised Statutes, shall be deemed just
2-11 and reasonable and to otherwise comply with all rate provisions of
2-12 this Act and Article 1446(e), Revised Statutes.
2-13 Renumber existing SECTION 3 as SECTION 4.
2-14 Holzheauser