89R19638 TYPED
 
  By: Schwertner S.B. No. 2872
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to connection reservation contracts.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 49.001, Utilities Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         Sec. 49.001.  DEFINITIONS. (a) As used in this chapter:
               (1)  "District" means any district or authority created
  by authority of either Sections 52(b)(1) and (2), Article III, or
  Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, regardless of how
  created. The term "district" shall not include any navigation
  district or port authority created under general or special law,
  any conservation and reclamation district created pursuant to
  Chapter 62, Acts of the 52nd Legislature, 1951 (Article 8280-141,
  Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), or any conservation and reclamation
  district governed by Chapter 36 unless a special law creating the
  district or amending the law creating the district states that this
  chapter applies to that district.
               (2)  "Commission" means the Texas Natural Resource
  Conservation Commission.
               (3)  "Board" means the governing body of a district.
               (4)  "Executive director" means the executive director
  of the commission.
               (5)  "Water supply corporation" means a nonprofit water
  supply or sewer service corporation created or operating under
  Chapter 67.
               (6)  "Director" means either a supervisor or director
  appointed or elected to the board.
               (7)  "Municipal solid waste" has the same meaning
  assigned by Section 361.003, Health and Safety Code.
               (8)  "Special water authority" means a river authority
  as that term is defined in Section 30.003, or a district created by
  a special Act of the legislature that:
                     (A)  is a provider of water or wastewater service
  to two or more municipalities; and
                     (B)  is governed by a board of directors appointed
  or designated in whole or in part by the governor, the Texas Water
  Development Board, or municipalities within its service area.
               (9)  "Potable water" means water that has been treated
  for public drinking water supply purposes.
               (10)  "District facility" means tangible real and
  personal property of the district, including any plant, equipment,
  means, recreational facility as defined by Section 49.462, or
  instrumentality owned, leased, operated, used, controlled,
  furnished, or supplied for, by, or in connection with the business
  or operations of a district. The term specifically includes a
  reservoir or easement of a district.
               (11)  "Connection" means a standardized measure of
  consumption, use, generation, or discharge attributable to an
  individual unit of development calculated in accordance with
  generally accepted engineering, or planning standards. Connections
  may be described in terms of single family equivalent connections,
  living unit of equivalents, or any other generally accepted unit of
  consumption typically attributable to a single family household.
         SECTION 2.  Subchapter A, Chapter 49, Utilities Code, is
  amended by adding Section 49.2131 to read as follows:
         Sec. 49.2131.  CONTRACTS VALID AND ENFORCEABLE. (a)  A
  contract between an individual and a municipality or special
  utility district created for the purpose of reserving a connection
  must include an expiration date of the term of the connection. 
         (b)  The term of a connection may not exceed 10 years from the
  date the connection was reserved. 
         (c)  Not less than 30 days before the expiration of the term
  of the connection, the municipality or special utility district
  must provide notice to the individual who is a party to the contract
  of the connection's forthcoming expiration date.
         SECTION 3:  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.