By: Guillen (Senate Sponsor - Alvarado) H.B. No. 4385

(In the Senate - Received from the House May 1, 2023; May 2, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs; May 19, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 19, 2023, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the provision of sewer service without a certificate of public convenience and necessity.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 13.242(c), Water Code, is amended to read as follows:

(c) The utility commission may by rule allow a municipality or utility or water supply corporation to render retail water service without a certificate of public convenience and necessity if the municipality has given notice under Section 13.255 that it intends to provide retail water service to an area or if the utility or water supply corporation has less than 15 potential connections and is not within the certificated area of another retail public utility. The utility commission may by rule allow a municipality or utility or water supply corporation to render retail sewer service without a certificate of public convenience and necessity if the municipality has given notice under Section 13.255 that it intends to provide retail sewer service to an area or if the utility or water supply corporation has less than 15 potential connections and is not within the certificated area of another retail public utility.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.

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