By Cook, McCall, Hawley H.B. No. 1289
76R5363 JJT-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the regulation of gas utilities organized as limited
1-3 liability companies.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 101.003(10), Utilities Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 (10) "Person" includes an individual, a partnership of
1-8 two or more persons having a joint or common interest, a mutual or
1-9 cooperative association, a limited liability company, and a
1-10 corporation.
1-11 SECTION 2. Section 121.001(b), Utilities Code, is amended to
1-12 read as follows:
1-13 (b) In this subchapter, "person" means an individual,
1-14 company, limited liability company, or private corporation and
1-15 includes a lessee, trustee, or receiver of an individual, company,
1-16 limited liability company, or private corporation.
1-17 SECTION 3. Section 181.001(1), Utilities Code, is amended to
1-18 read as follows:
1-19 (1) "Corporation" includes:
1-20 (A) a partnership or other combination
1-21 [partnerships and other combinations] composed exclusively of
1-22 corporations or in which a corporation is a general partner; and
1-23 (B) a limited liability company.
1-24 SECTION 4. The legislature intends that each change in law
2-1 made by this Act shall be:
2-2 (1) considered as a clarification of existing law; and
2-3 (2) construed as consistent with the law as it existed
2-4 immediately before the effective date of this Act.
2-5 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-11 passage, and it is so enacted.