By Hope H.B. No. 1588
76R9758 MXM-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to providing notification of utility service connections
1-3 to appraisal and emergency communication districts.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 366.005, Health and Safety Code, is
1-6 amended by amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsection (e) to
1-7 read as follows:
1-8 (d) The county judge shall forward the list compiled under
1-9 Subsection (a) to each appraisal district and each emergency
1-10 communication district in the county.
1-11 (e) In this section:
1-12 (1) "Appraisal district" means a district established
1-13 under Section 6.01, Tax Code.
1-14 (2) "Electric[, "electric] utility" means an
1-15 investor-owned utility, electric cooperative corporation, river
1-16 authority, or municipally owned utility that provides distribution
1-17 service to retail customers of electricity.
1-18 (3) "Emergency communication district" means a
1-19 district established under Chapter 772.
1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.