Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

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1	1	89R12292 SCR-F
2	2	By: Flores S.B. No. 2160
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7	7	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
8	8	AN ACT
9	9	relating to the jurisdiction of the Public Utility Commission of
10	10	Texas over municipally owned utility water and sewer service
11	11	outside the corporate limits of a municipality.
12	12	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
13	13	SECTION 1. Sections 13.042(e) and (f), Water Code, are
14	14	amended to read as follows:
15	15	(e) The utility commission shall have exclusive original
16	16	jurisdiction over the [water and sewer utility] rates, operations,
17	17	and services:
18	18	(1) of a water and sewer utility for water or sewer
19	19	utility service provided outside [not within] the corporate
20	20	[incorporated] limits of a municipality exercising exclusive
21	21	original jurisdiction over those rates, operations, and services as
22	22	provided in this chapter; and
23	23	(2) of a municipally owned utility for water or sewer
24	24	utility service provided outside the corporate limits of the
25	25	municipality.
26	26	(f) This subchapter does not give the utility commission
27	27	power or jurisdiction to regulate or supervise the rates or service
28	28	of a municipally owned utility [utility owned and operated by a
29	29	municipality, directly or through a municipally owned
30	30	corporation,] within its corporate limits or to affect or limit the
31	31	power, jurisdiction, or duties of a municipality that regulates
32	32	land and supervises water and sewer utilities within its corporate
33	33	limits, except as provided by this code.
34	34	SECTION 2. Section 13.043(b), Water Code, is amended to
35	35	read as follows:
36	36	(b) Ratepayers of the following entities may appeal the
37	37	decision of the governing body of the entity affecting their water,
38	38	drainage, or sewer rates to the utility commission:
39	39	(1) a nonprofit water supply or sewer service
40	40	corporation created and operating under Chapter 67;
41	41	(2) a utility under the jurisdiction of a municipality
42	42	inside the corporate limits of the municipality;
43	43	(3) [a municipally owned utility, if the ratepayers
44	44	reside outside the corporate limits of the municipality, including
45	45	a decision of a governing body that results in an increase in rates
46	46	when the municipally owned utility takes over the provision of
47	47	service to ratepayers previously served by another retail public
48	48	utility;
49	49	[(4)] a district or authority created under Article
50	50	III, Section 52, or Article XVI, Section 59, of the Texas
51	51	Constitution that provides water or sewer service to household
52	52	users; and
53	53	(4) [(5)] a utility owned by an affected county, if
54	54	the ratepayer's rates are actually or may be adversely affected.
55	55	For the purposes of this section ratepayers who reside outside the
56	56	boundaries of the district or authority shall be considered a
57	57	separate class from ratepayers who reside inside those boundaries.
58	58	SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
59	59	a rate proceeding initiated on or after the effective date of this
60	60	Act.
61	61	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.