1-1     By:  Harris                                           S.B. No. 1883
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed April 23, 1999; April 23, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
 1-4     April 27, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6,
 1-5     Nays 0; April 27, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to certain rates charged by a gas utility or municipally
 1-9     owned utility to a state agency.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 104.202, Utilities Code, is amended by
1-12     adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
1-13           (c)  A gross receipts assessment, regulatory assessment, or
1-14     similar expense of the utility does not include a payment to a
1-15     municipality under a contract, franchise, or other agreement.
1-16           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-22     passage, and it is so enacted.
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