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. 1-23 * * * * *