By: Patterson S.B. No. 1670 97S0767/1 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to increased customer options in the purchase and 1-2 management of electricity. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subtitle D, Title II, Public Utility Regulatory 1-5 Act of 1995 (Article 1446c-0, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is 1-6 amended by adding Section 2.157 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 2.157. CUSTOMER ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT. Notwithstanding 1-8 any other provision in this Act, a person that purchases 1-9 electricity from an investor-owned electric utility in more than 1-10 one metered location shall have the option to receive a single bill 1-11 based on the aggregated load for any or all of its metered 1-12 locations within the utility's certificated service area. A 1-13 customer choosing this option shall notify the utility in writing. 1-14 The utility shall have 30 days from the date it receives 1-15 notification in which to convert that person's accounts. 1-16 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.