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.