By Wentworth S.B. No. 1135 75R4050 JJT-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to refunding certain charges made by certain utilities. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subtitle K, Title I, Public Utility Regulatory 1-5 Act of 1995 (Article 1446c-0, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is 1-6 amended by adding Section 1.408 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 1.408. REFUNDS FOR OVER-BILLING. The commission by 1-8 rule shall require a public utility that charges a customer more 1-9 than the lawful rate for the service being purchased by the 1-10 customer to refund the overcharged amount by an adjustment made for 1-11 the entire period of the overcharges. 1-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-18 passage, and it is so enacted.