By Hope H.B. No. 1588
76R4646 MXM-F
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 services 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 communications district having jurisdiction over an area in which
1-11 an address on the list is included.
1-12 (e) In this section:
1-13 (1) "Appraisal district" means a district established
1-14 under Section 6.01, Tax Code.
1-15 (2) "Electric [, "electric] utility" means an
1-16 investor-owned utility, electric cooperative corporation, river
1-17 authority, or municipally owned utility that provides distribution
1-18 service to retail customers of electricity.
1-19 (3) "Emergency communications district" means a
1-20 district established under Chapter 772.
1-21 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.