1-1 By: Nelson S.B. No. 144 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 11, 1999; January 28, 1999, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources; 1-4 March 11, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5, 1-5 Nays 0; March 11, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the designation of a person to receive notice of 1-9 utility service connections. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 366.005, Health and 1-12 Safety Code, is amended to read as follows: 1-13 (a) An electric utility shall compile a list weekly for each 1-14 county in this state of the addresses located in an unincorporated 1-15 area of the county at which the electric utility has made new 1-16 electric service connections during the preceding week. The 1-17 electric utility shall submit the list to the county judge of the 1-18 county, or to a county officer or employee designated by the county 1-19 judge, who shall forward the list to each authorized agent having 1-20 jurisdiction over an area in which an address on the list is 1-21 included. The authorized agent may use the list for the purpose of 1-22 implementing and enforcing rules under this chapter. This section 1-23 does not apply to a reconnection of service to a location 1-24 previously served. 1-25 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-28 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-29 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-30 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-31 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-32 * * * * *