83R30845 RWG-D
By: Nelson, Eltife S.R. No. 1029
R E S O L U T I O N
BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the State of Texas, 83rd
Legislature, Regular Session, 2013, That Senate Rule 12.03 be
suspended in part as provided by Senate Rule 12.08 to enable the
conference committee appointed to resolve the differences on House
Bill 1160 (the transfer of a certificate of convenience and
necessity in certain municipalities) to consider and take action on
the following matter:
Senate Rule 12.03(1) is suspended to permit the committee to
change text not in disagreement in proposed Section 1 of the bill,
in added Section 552.024(a), Local Government Code, to read as
follows:
(a) This section applies to:
(1) a municipality that:
(A) has a population of not more than 2,500;
(B) is located in a county that:
(i) has a population of 1.7 million or more;
and
(ii) has two municipalities with a
population of 300,000 or more; and
(C) is served by a public utility that:
(i) provides service to the entire
municipality; and
(ii) charges rates for 5,000 gallons of
water for residential customers that are at least 50 percent higher
than the rates charged by a municipally owned utility that serves
another part of the county in which the municipality is located; and
(2) a municipality:
(A) with a population of more than 95,000;
(B) located in a county that:
(i) borders Lake Palestine; and
(ii) has a population of more than 200,000;
(C) that owns and operates a utility that
provides sewer service; and
(D) that has an area within the boundaries of the
municipality that is certificated to another retail public utility
that provides sewer service.
Explanation: The change is necessary to specify the
municipalities to which the added section will apply.