1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to an extension to file a request to maintain service area
1-3 certification by a municipally owned utility.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 37.060(b), Utilities Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (b) This section does not apply in any area in which a
1-8 municipally owned utility is certificated to provide retail
1-9 electric utility service if the municipally owned utility serving
1-10 the area files with the commission by October 1, 2001 [February 1,
1-11 2000], a request that areas within the certificated service area of
1-12 the municipally owned utility remain as presently certificated.
1-13 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
1-14 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-15 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
1-16 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-17 Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 412 was passed by the House on May 5,
2001, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 0, 2 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 412 was passed by the Senate on May
22, 2001, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0, 1 present, not
voting.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: __________________________
Date
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Governor