By Nelson                                              S.B. No. 144
         76R2942 MXM-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the designation of a person to receive notice of
 1-3     utility service connections.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 366.005(a), Health and Safety Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  An electric utility shall compile a list weekly for each
 1-8     county in this state of the addresses located in an unincorporated
 1-9     area of the county at which the electric utility has made new
1-10     electric service connections during the preceding week.  The
1-11     electric utility shall submit the list to the county judge of the
1-12     county, or to a county officer or employee designated by the county
1-13     judge, who shall forward the list to each authorized agent having
1-14     jurisdiction over an area in which an address on the list is
1-15     included.  The authorized agent may use the list for the purpose of
1-16     implementing and enforcing rules under this chapter.  This section
1-17     does not apply to a reconnection of service to a location
1-18     previously served.
1-19           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-24     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-1     passage, and it is so enacted.