By Barrientos                                    S.B. No. 254

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                                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           Sec. 1.409.  REFUNDS.  If a customer is due a refund, an

 1-7     adjustment shall be made for the entire period that the customer

 1-8     was overcharged.

 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.