Bill Text: TX HB1685 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of the General Land Office to sell retail electric power.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-12 - Left pending in committee [HB1685 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1685-Introduced.html
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By: Clardy | H.B. No. 1685 |
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relating to the authority of the General Land Office to sell retail | ||
electric power. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 35.102, Utilities Code, is transferred | ||
to Subchapter A, Chapter 101, Utilities Code, redesignated as | ||
Section 101.009, Utilities Code, and amended to read as follows: | ||
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(1) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the | ||
General Land Office. | ||
(2) "Public retail customer" means a retail customer | ||
that is an agency of this state, a state institution of higher | ||
education, a public school district, a political subdivision of | ||
this state, a military installation of the United States, or a | ||
United States Department of Veterans Affairs facility. | ||
(b) The commissioner, acting on behalf of the state, may | ||
sell or otherwise convey [ |
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royalties taken in kind as provided by Sections 52.133(f), 53.026, | ||
and 53.077, Natural Resources Code, directly to a public retail | ||
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benefit from the sale of [ |
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royalties taken in kind, the commissioner shall use all feasible | ||
means to sell that [ |
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customers that are military installations of the United States, | ||
agencies of this state, institutions of higher education, or public | ||
school districts. The remainder of the [ |
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any, may be sold to public retail customers that are political | ||
subdivisions of this state or to a United States Department of | ||
Veterans Affairs facility. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 104.2545(d), Utilities Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(d) In this section, "public retail customer" has the | ||
meaning assigned by Section 101.009 [ |
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SECTION 3. (a) The heading to Subchapter D, Chapter 35, | ||
Utilities Code, is repealed. | ||
(b) Sections 35.101, 35.103, 35.104, 35.105, and 35.106, | ||
Utilities Code, are repealed. | ||
SECTION 4. The General Land Office or an entity operating | ||
under a contract with the General Land Office may continue to | ||
provide retail electric service in accordance with Subchapter D, | ||
Chapter 35, Utilities Code, as that subchapter existed before the | ||
effective date of this Act, under the terms of an agreement with a | ||
customer entered into before the effective date of this Act, only | ||
until the date the agreement expires. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |