By:  Harris                                           S.B. No. 1883
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to certain rates charged by a gas utility or municipally
 1-2     owned utility to a state agency.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 104.202, Utilities Code, is amended by
 1-5     adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
 1-6           (c)  A gross receipts assessment, regulatory assessment, or
 1-7     similar expense of the utility does not include a payment to a
 1-8     municipality under a contract, franchise, or other agreement.
 1-9           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-10     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-11     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-12     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-13     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-14     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-15     passage, and it is so enacted.