1-1 By: Hope (Senate Sponsor - Nixon) H.B. No. 1588
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 19, 1999;
1-3 April 20, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 6, 1999, reported favorably by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 6, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to providing notification of utility service connections
1-9 to appraisal and emergency communication districts.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 366.005, Health and Safety Code, is
1-12 amended by amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsection (e) to
1-13 read as follows:
1-14 (d) The county judge shall forward the list compiled under
1-15 Subsection (a) to each appraisal district and each emergency
1-16 communication district in the county.
1-17 (e) In this section:
1-18 (1) "Appraisal district" means a district established
1-19 under Section 6.01, Tax Code.
1-20 (2) "Electric[, "electric] utility" means an
1-21 investor-owned utility, electric cooperative corporation, river
1-22 authority, or municipally owned utility that provides distribution
1-23 service to retail customers of electricity.
1-24 (3) "Emergency communication district" means a
1-25 district established under Chapter 772.
1-26 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-27 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-28 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-29 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-30 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-31 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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