| 1 | 1 | | By: Watson S.B. No. 410 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (In the Senate - Filed February 6, 2013; February 13, 2013, |
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| 3 | 3 | | read first time and referred to Committee on Business and Commerce; |
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| 4 | 4 | | March 13, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8, |
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| 5 | 5 | | Nays 0; March 13, 2013, sent to printer.) |
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| 8 | 8 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 9 | 9 | | AN ACT |
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| 10 | 10 | | relating to the management and operation of certain municipally |
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| 11 | 11 | | owned electric utilities. |
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| 12 | 12 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 13 | 13 | | SECTION 1. Section 552.122, Local Government Code, is |
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| 14 | 14 | | amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: |
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| 15 | 15 | | (c) Notwithstanding any other law, including a municipal |
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| 16 | 16 | | ordinance or provision of a municipal charter, a municipality with |
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| 17 | 17 | | a population of less than 850,000 that is served by a municipally |
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| 18 | 18 | | owned electric utility system with 400,000 or more customers may |
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| 19 | 19 | | transfer management and control of the municipality's electric |
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| 20 | 20 | | utility system to a board of trustees appointed by the |
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| 21 | 21 | | municipality's governing body. |
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| 22 | 22 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 23 | 23 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 24 | 24 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 25 | 25 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 26 | 26 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |
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| 27 | 27 | | * * * * * |
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