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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