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| By: Stickland | H.B. No. 3916 | |
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| relating to water and electric utility services provided to certain | ||
| federal agencies. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. The heading to Subtitle C, Title 13, Local | ||
| Government Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| SUBTITLE C. WATER AND ELECTRICITY PROVISIONS APPLICABLE [ |
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| TO MORE THAN ONE TYPE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT | ||
| SECTION 2. The heading to Chapter 580, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 580. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RELATING TO [ |
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| ONE TYPE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT | ||
| SECTION 3. Chapter 580, Local Government Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 580.005 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 580.005. PROVIDING WATER AND ELECTRIC UTILITY SERVICES | ||
| TO CERTAIN FEDERAL AGENCIES PROHIBITED. (a) In this section, | ||
| "federal data collection and surveillance agency" means a federal | ||
| agency that is involved in the routine surveillance or collection | ||
| and storage of bulk telephone or e-mail records or related metadata | ||
| concerning any citizen of the United States and that claims the | ||
| legal authority to collect and store the bulk telephone or e-mail | ||
| records or metadata concerning any citizen of the United States | ||
| without the citizen's consent or a search warrant that describes | ||
| the person, place, or thing to be searched or seized. | ||
| (b) A political subdivision may not provide water or electric | ||
| utility service to a federal data collection and surveillance | ||
| agency or to the property or a facility of another person used to | ||
| support a federal data collection and surveillance agency for | ||
| information collection or storage. | ||
| (c) A political subdivision that has outstanding bonds that | ||
| are payable from pledged water or electric utility revenue is | ||
| required to terminate the water or electric utility service, as | ||
| applicable, to a federal data collection and surveillance agency | ||
| only when the bonds are repaid. | ||
| SECTION 4. Section 580.005, Local Government Code, as added | ||
| by this Act, may not be construed to impair an obligation under a | ||
| contract entered into on or after the effective date of this Act. A | ||
| political subdivision may fulfill the subdivision's obligations | ||
| under a contract entered into before that date but may not extend | ||
| such a contract beyond the contract's original term. | ||
| SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||