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| 1 | 1 | 85R871 GRM-D | |
| 2 | 2 | By: Workman H.B. No. 1458 | |
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| 5 | 5 | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 6 | 6 | AN ACT | |
| 7 | 7 | relating to the management and operation of certain municipally | |
| 8 | 8 | owned electric utilities. | |
| 9 | 9 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 10 | 10 | SECTION 1. Section 552.122, Local Government Code, is | |
| 11 | 11 | amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: | |
| 12 | 12 | (c) Notwithstanding any other law, including a municipal | |
| 13 | 13 | ordinance or provision of a municipal charter, a municipality with | |
| 14 | 14 | a population of less than 850,000 that is served by a municipally | |
| 15 | 15 | owned electric utility system with 400,000 or more customers may | |
| 16 | 16 | transfer management and control of the municipality's electric | |
| 17 | 17 | utility system to a board of trustees appointed by the | |
| 18 | 18 | municipality's governing body. | |
| 19 | 19 | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | |
| 20 | 20 | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | |
| 21 | 21 | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | |
| 22 | 22 | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | |
| 23 | 23 | Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |