AN ACT 1-1 relating to the designation of a person to receive notice of 1-2 utility service connections. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 366.005, Health and 1-5 Safety Code, is amended to read as follows: 1-6 (a) An electric utility shall compile a list weekly for each 1-7 county in this state of the addresses located in an unincorporated 1-8 area of the county at which the electric utility has made new 1-9 electric service connections during the preceding week. The 1-10 electric utility shall submit the list to the county judge of the 1-11 county, or to a county officer or employee designated by the county 1-12 judge, who shall forward the list to each authorized agent having 1-13 jurisdiction over an area in which an address on the list is 1-14 included. The authorized agent may use the list for the purpose of 1-15 implementing and enforcing rules under this chapter. This section 1-16 does not apply to a reconnection of service to a location 1-17 previously served. 1-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-24 passage, and it is so enacted. _______________________________ _______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I hereby certify that S.B. No. 144 passed the Senate on March 18, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate I hereby certify that S.B. No. 144 passed the House on April 16, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 136, Nays 0, two present not voting. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House Approved: _______________________________ Date _______________________________ Governor