By Lewis of Orange                              H.B. No. 3179

      75R9379 DWS-F                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to consideration of certain expenses in utility ratemaking

 1-3     proceedings.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 2.208, Public Utility Regulatory Act of

 1-6     1995 (Article 1446c-0, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended

 1-7     by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:

 1-8           (f)  Certain Tax Expenses.  If property of a utility is

 1-9     included in an area annexed by a municipality, the commission may

1-10     not consider for ratemaking purposes any increase in taxes

1-11     resulting from the annexation.

1-12           SECTION 2.  Section 3.208, Public Utility Regulatory Act of

1-13     1995 (Article 1446c-0, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended

1-14     by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:

1-15           (f)  Certain Tax Expenses.  If property of a utility is

1-16     included in an area annexed by a municipality, the commission may

1-17     not consider for ratemaking purposes any increase in taxes

1-18     resulting from the annexation.

1-19           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-24     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-1     passage, and it is so enacted.