By: Duncan S.B. No. 1797 Line and page numbers may not match official copy. Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to services of a gas utility provided to a school 1-2 district. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 104.254, Utilities Code, is amended to 1-5 read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 104.254. SERVICE. A gas utility or municipally owned 1-7 utility may not refuse to provide service to a school district or a 1-8 state agency if pipeline capacity is available on an existing 1-9 facility of the utility. 1-10 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.