1-1 By: Henderson S.B. No. 1628
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 28, 1995; March 29, 1995, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 April 21, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 11,
1-5 Nays 0; April 21, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to service and rates of a gas utility.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Subsection (d), Section 1, Article 6050, Revised
1-11 Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
1-12 (d) No person shall be deemed to be a "gas utility," "public
1-13 utility," or "utility" solely because such person is an affiliate
1-14 of such an entity. <The term "gas utility," "public utility," or
1-15 "utility" does not include a person not otherwise a gas utility
1-16 that transports gas on behalf of the state or a state agency or
1-17 institution.>
1-18 SECTION 2. The following are repealed:
1-19 (1) Section 6, Article 6050, Revised Statutes; and
1-20 (2) Subsection (b), Section 1, Article 6053, Revised
1-21 Statutes.
1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-25 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-26 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-27 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-28 passage, and it is so enacted.
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