By Zbranek                                             H.B. No. 412
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 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.