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78R2403 MI-D

By:  Berman                                                       H.B. No. 467



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to water and sewer service provided to residents of 
certain areas annexed by a municipality.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 13.255, Water Code, is amended by adding 
Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:
	(a-1)  The commission by rule shall allow a municipality to 
temporarily provide retail water or sewer utility service without a 
certificate of public convenience and necessity to an area in the 
municipality or the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction 
that is also in the certified area of a water supply corporation if 
the water supply corporation is unable or unwilling to provide the 
service within 90 days after the service is requested.  The rules 
must require the municipality to file notice with the water supply 
corporation under Subsection (b) of its intent to provide service 
in the annexed area or the municipality's extraterritorial 
jurisdiction and to file an application with the commission under 
that subsection to grant single certification to the municipally 
owned water or sewer utility or to a franchised utility.  The rules 
must also provide for expedited procedures for consideration of the 
application.  The commission shall grant single certification to 
the municipality under this subsection not later than the 45th day 
after the date on which the application is received.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.