81R10596 TRH-D
By: Farabee H.B. No. 2852
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a prohibition on retail electric providers including a
change of law provision in a contract for retail electric service.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 17, Utilities Code, is
amended by adding Section 17.159 to read as follows:
Sec. 17.159. CHANGE OF LAW. A retail electric provider may
not include in a contract for retail electric service a provision
that allows the provider to increase the price charged under the
contract to recover costs to the provider that result from a change
in the law.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to a contract for retail electric service that is entered into on or
after the effective date of this Act. A contract for retail electric
service that is entered into before the effective date of this Act
is subject to the law in effect on the date the contract was entered
into, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.