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.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1883 passed the Senate on
         May 6, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1883 passed the House on
         May 22, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 143, Nays 0, one present
         not voting.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor