89R741 CXP-D
By: Blanco S.B. No. 907
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to bill payment assistance programs for utility customers
offered by certain municipalities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 552, Local Government
Code, is amended by adding Section 552.9145 to read as follows:
Sec. 552.9145. CUSTOMER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR UTILITY
SYSTEM CUSTOMERS IN CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES. (a) In this section,
"utility system" has the meaning assigned by Section 552.914.
(b) This section applies only to a municipality described by
Section 1502.070(a)(2)(B), Government Code.
(c) The board of trustees vested with the management and
control of a municipality's utility system has exclusive authority
to establish a bill payment assistance program for utility system
customers:
(1) who the utility determines are low-income
customers whose service was disconnected for nonpayment by the
utility system three or more times during a calendar year; or
(2) who are 75 years of age or older and have received
a notice of disconnection from service from the utility system for
nonpayment of bills.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2025.