1-1 By: Zbranek (Senate Sponsor - Bernsen) H.B. No. 412
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 7, 2001;
1-3 May 7, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on Business
1-4 and Commerce; May 10, 2001, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 10, 2001, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to an extension to file a request to maintain service area
1-9 certification by a municipally owned utility.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 37.060(b), Utilities Code, is amended to
1-12 read as follows:
1-13 (b) This section does not apply in any area in which a
1-14 municipally owned utility is certificated to provide retail
1-15 electric utility service if the municipally owned utility serving
1-16 the area files with the commission by October 1, 2001 [February 1,
1-17 2000], a request that areas within the certificated service area of
1-18 the municipally owned utility remain as presently certificated.
1-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
1-20 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-21 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
1-22 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-23 Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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