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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