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1		-	By: Turner of Harris (Senate Sponsor - Whitmire) H.B. No. 1101
2		-	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 2015;
3		-	May 12, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on Finance;
4		-	May 21, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 13,
5		-	Nays 0; May 21, 2015, sent to printer.)
6		-	Click here to see the committee vote
	1	+	H.B. No. 1101
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9		-	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
10	4		AN ACT
11	5		relating to extending the period over which the balance of the
12	6		system benefit fund is to be eliminated.
13	7		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
14	8		SECTION 1. Section 39.903(m), Utilities Code, is amended to
15	9		read as follows:
16	10		(m) This section expires September 1, 2017 [2016].
17	11		SECTION 2. Section 39.9039, Utilities Code, is amended to
18	12		read as follows:
19	13		Sec. 39.9039. ELIMINATION OF SYSTEM BENEFIT FUND BALANCE.
20	14		(a) Notwithstanding Section 39.903(b), the commission shall set the
21	15		nonbypassable system benefit fund fee at the amount of zero cents
22	16		per megawatt hour for the period beginning September 1, 2013, and
23	17		ending September 1, 2017 [2016].
24	18		(b) Notwithstanding Section 39.903(e), money in the system
25	19		benefit fund may be appropriated:
26	20		(1) [for the state fiscal year beginning September 1,
27	21		2013, a program established by the commission to assist low-income
28	22		electric customers by providing a reduced rate for the months of
29	23		September, 2013, and May through August, 2014, in the manner
30	24		prescribed by Section 39.903(h) at a rate of up to 82 percent;
31	25		[(2)] for the state fiscal year beginning September 1,
32	26		2014, to a program established by the commission to assist
33	27		low-income electric customers by providing a reduced rate for the
34	28		months of September, 2014, and May through August, 2015, in the
35	29		manner prescribed by Section 39.903(h), at a rate of up to 15
36	30		percent;
37	31		(2) [(3)] for the state fiscal year beginning
38	32		September 1, 2015, to a program established by the commission to
39	33		assist low-income electric customers by providing a reduced rate
40	34		for the months of September, 2015, [and May] through August, 2016,
41	35		in the manner prescribed by Section 39.903(h), at the [a] rate the
42	36		commission determines is necessary to exhaust the system benefit
43	37		fund [of up to 15 percent];
44	38		(3) for the state fiscal year beginning September 1,
45	39		2016, if any money remains in the fund, to a program established by
46	40		the commission to assist low-income electric customers by providing
47	41		a reduced rate for the months of September, 2016, through August,
48	42		2017, in the manner prescribed by Section 39.903(h), at the rate the
49	43		commission determines is necessary to exhaust the system benefit
50	44		fund; and
51	45		(4) for customer education programs and
52	46		administrative expenses incurred by the commission in implementing
53	47		and administering this chapter.
54	48		(c) This section expires September 1, 2017 [2016].
55	49		SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
56	50		a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
57	51		provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
58	52		Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
59	53		Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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	54	+	______________________________ ______________________________
	55	+	President of the Senate Speaker of the House
	56	+	I certify that H.B. No. 1101 was passed by the House on May 8,
	57	+	2015, by the following vote: Yeas 141, Nays 1, 1 present, not
	58	+	voting.
	59	+	______________________________
	60	+	Chief Clerk of the House
	61	+	I certify that H.B. No. 1101 was passed by the Senate on May
	62	+	24, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 27, Nays 3.
	63	+	______________________________
	64	+	Secretary of the Senate
	65	+	APPROVED: _____________________
	66	+	Date
	67	+	_____________________
	68	+	Governor