89R5269 SCR-D
 
  By: Dorazio H.B. No. 2505
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the notification provided by a municipality to a retail
  public utility of the municipality's intent to provide water or
  sewer service in an incorporated or annexed area.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 13.255(b) and (b-1), Water Code, are
  amended to read as follows:
         (b)  If an agreement is not executed within 180 days after
  the municipality[, in writing,] notifies the retail public utility
  of its intent to provide service to the incorporated or annexed
  area, and if the municipality desires and intends to provide retail
  utility service to the area, the municipality, prior to providing
  service to the area, shall file an application with the utility
  commission to grant single certification to the municipally owned
  water or sewer utility or to a franchised utility. If an
  application for single certification is filed, the utility
  commission shall fix a time and place for a hearing and give notice
  of the hearing to the municipality and franchised utility, if any,
  and notice of the application and hearing to the retail public
  utility.
         (b-1)  On the day a municipality submits an application for
  single certification to the utility commission under this section,
  the municipality shall send, via certified mail, [or] hand
  delivery, or e-mail, a copy of the application to the retail public
  utility.
         SECTION 2.  The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
  a proceeding affecting a certificate of public convenience and
  necessity that commences on or after the effective date of this Act.
  A proceeding affecting a certificate of public convenience and
  necessity that commenced before the effective date of this Act is
  governed by the law in effect on the date the proceeding is
  commenced, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.