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.
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             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.
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                                                 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.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor