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