By Harris                                             S.B. No. 1883
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to certain rates charged by a gas utility or municipally
 1-3     owned utility to a state agency.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 104.202, Utilities Code, is amended by
 1-6     adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
 1-7           (c)  A gross receipts assessment, regulatory assessment, or
 1-8     similar expense of the utility does not include a payment to a
 1-9     municipality under a contract, franchise, or other agreement.
1-10           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-11     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-12     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-13     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-14     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-15     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-16     passage, and it is so enacted.