84R11159 GRM-D
By: Stickland H.B. No. 3916
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to water and electric utility services provided to certain
federal agencies.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The heading to Subtitle C, Title 13, Local
Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
SUBTITLE C. WATER AND ELECTRICITY PROVISIONS APPLICABLE [APPLYING]
TO MORE THAN ONE TYPE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT
SECTION 2. The heading to Chapter 580, Local Government
Code, is amended to read as follows:
CHAPTER 580. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RELATING TO [MUNICIPAL AND
COUNTY] WATER AND ELECTRIC UTILITY SERVICES APPLICABLE TO MORE THAN
ONE TYPE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT
SECTION 3. Chapter 580, Local Government Code, is amended
by adding Section 580.005 to read as follows:
Sec. 580.005. PROVIDING WATER AND ELECTRIC UTILITY SERVICES
TO CERTAIN FEDERAL AGENCIES PROHIBITED. (a) In this section,
"federal data collection and surveillance agency" means a federal
agency that is involved in the routine surveillance or collection
and storage of bulk telephone or e-mail records or related metadata
concerning any citizen of the United States and that claims the
legal authority to collect and store the bulk telephone or e-mail
records or metadata concerning any citizen of the United States
without the citizen's consent or a search warrant that describes
the person, place, or thing to be searched or seized.
(b) A political subdivision may not provide water or electric
utility service to a federal data collection and surveillance
agency or to the property or a facility of another person used to
support a federal data collection and surveillance agency for
information collection or storage.
(c) A political subdivision that has outstanding bonds that
are payable from pledged water or electric utility revenue is
required to terminate the water or electric utility service, as
applicable, to a federal data collection and surveillance agency
only when the bonds are repaid.
SECTION 4. Section 580.005, Local Government Code, as added
by this Act, may not be construed to impair an obligation under a
contract entered into on or after the effective date of this Act. A
political subdivision may fulfill the subdivision's obligations
under a contract entered into before that date but may not extend
such a contract beyond the contract's original term.
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.