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      By Hilderbran                                    H.B. No. 943

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to refunds.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.01.  Add new Section 1.409 to the Public Utility

 1-5     Regulatory Act of 1995 to read as follows:

 1-6           REFUNDS.  If a customer is due a refund, then the full amount

 1-7     of the refund shall be returned to the customer.  The refund shall

 1-8     be calculated based on the entire period of the overcharge.

 1-9           SECTION 1.02.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-10     crowded condition of the Calendar in both houses create an

1-11     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-12     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-13     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-14     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-15     passage, and it is so enacted.