By: Alvarado  S.B. No. 1778
         (In the Senate - Filed March 7, 2023; March 20, 2023, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Water, Agriculture & Rural
  Affairs; April 17, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote:  
  Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 17, 2023, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the process for initiating, transferring, or
  terminating water or sewer service.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 13, Water Code, is amended
  by adding Section 13.152 to read as follows:
         Sec. 13.152.  INITIATION, TRANSFER, OR TERMINATION OF
  SERVICE.  A retail public utility may initiate, transfer, or
  terminate a customer's retail water or sewer service on receipt of a
  customer request by mail, by telephone, through an Internet
  website, or through another electronic transmission.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
 
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