1-1     By:  Cook, McCall, Hawley (Senate Sponsor - Brown)    H.B. No. 1289
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House March 25, 1999;
 1-3     March 29, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Natural Resources; April 8, 1999, reported favorably by the
 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; April 8, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the regulation of gas utilities organized as limited
 1-9     liability companies.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 101.003(10), Utilities Code, is amended
1-12     to read as follows:
1-13                 (10)  "Person" includes an individual, a partnership of
1-14     two or more persons having a joint or common interest, a mutual or
1-15     cooperative association, a limited liability company, and a
1-16     corporation.
1-17           SECTION 2.  Section 121.001(b), Utilities Code, is amended to
1-18     read as follows:
1-19           (b)  In this subchapter, "person" means an individual,
1-20     company, limited liability company, or private corporation and
1-21     includes a lessee, trustee, or receiver of an individual, company,
1-22     limited liability company, or private corporation.
1-23           SECTION 3.  Section 181.001(1), Utilities Code, is amended to
1-24     read as follows:
1-25                 (1)  "Corporation" includes:
1-26                       (A)  a partnership or other combination
1-27     [partnerships and other combinations] composed exclusively of
1-28     corporations or in which a corporation is a general partner; and
1-29                       (B)  a limited liability company.
1-30           SECTION 4.  The legislature intends that each change in law
1-31     made by this Act shall be:
1-32                 (1)  considered as a clarification of existing law; and
1-33                 (2)  construed as consistent with the law as it existed
1-34     immediately before the effective date of this Act.
1-35           SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-36     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-37     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-38     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-39     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-40     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-41     passage, and it is so enacted.
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