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| 1 | 1 | By: Aycock (Senate Sponsor - Fraser) H.B. No. 1461 | |
| 2 | 2 | (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 2013; | |
| 3 | 3 | May 10, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural | |
| 4 | 4 | Resources; May 17, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote: | |
| 5 | 5 | Yeas 7, Nays 1; May 17, 2013, sent to printer.) | |
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| 8 | 8 | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 9 | 9 | AN ACT | |
| 10 | 10 | relating to customer notification of water loss by a retail public | |
| 11 | 11 | utility. | |
| 12 | 12 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 13 | 13 | SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 13, Water Code, is amended | |
| 14 | 14 | by adding Section 13.148 to read as follows: | |
| 15 | 15 | Sec. 13.148. NOTIFICATION OF WATER LOSS. (a) The | |
| 16 | 16 | commission by rule shall require a retail public utility that files | |
| 17 | 17 | a water audit required by Section 16.0121 to notify each of the | |
| 18 | 18 | utility's customers of the water loss reported in the water audit. | |
| 19 | 19 | (b) A retail public utility shall provide the notice | |
| 20 | 20 | required under Subsection (a) on or with: | |
| 21 | 21 | (1) the utility's next annual consumer confidence | |
| 22 | 22 | report delivered after the water audit is filed; or | |
| 23 | 23 | (2) the next bill the customer receives after the | |
| 24 | 24 | water audit is filed. | |
| 25 | 25 | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | |
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