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         By Gallego                                            H.B. No. 3386

         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3386:

         By Wolens                                         C.S.H.B. No. 3386

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the purposes and powers of an electric cooperative

 1-3     corporation serving a border county.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  The Electric Cooperative Corporation Act (Article

 1-6     1528b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) is amended by adding Section

 1-7     4B to read as follows:

 1-8           Sec. 4B.  ADDITIONAL PURPOSES AND POWERS OF CORPORATION

 1-9     SERVING BORDER COUNTIES.  (a)  This section applies only to a

1-10     corporation that serves retail customers in a county that is

1-11     contiguous to an international border.

1-12           (b)  In addition to the purposes and powers otherwise

1-13     provided by this Act, a corporation to which this section applies

1-14     and that complies with all requirements of a public utility under

1-15     Chapter 13, Water Code, may provide, directly or through an

1-16     affiliate, the following activities within any portion of the

1-17     corporation's service area:

1-18                 (1)  rural community utility and utility-related

1-19     services, including water and sewer services, Internet services,

1-20     and telephone answering services, but not including

1-21     telecommunications services governed by the Public Utility

1-22     Regulatory Act of 1995 (Article 1446c-0, Vernon's Texas Civil

1-23     Statutes) or electricity;

1-24                 (2)  management or operating services to or for another

 2-1     corporation or another entity engaged in purposes authorized by

 2-2     Section 3 of this Act; and

 2-3                 (3)  economic and industrial development promotion

 2-4     through participation as a borrower or lender under a federal

 2-5     program.

 2-6           (c)  The corporation has all powers, including the power to

 2-7     borrow money, necessary or appurtenant to the purposes and powers

 2-8     provided by Subsection (b) of this section.

 2-9           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-10     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-11     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-12     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-13     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

2-14     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-15     passage, and it is so enacted.