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