Bill Text: TX HB1997 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to customer choice for certain state agencies served by a municipally owned electric utility.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-14 - Left pending in committee [HB1997 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB1997-Introduced.html

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82R10195 JJT-D
By: Shelton H.B. No. 1997

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to customer choice for certain state agencies served by a
municipally owned electric utility.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 40, Utilities Code, is
amended by adding Section 40.063 to read as follows:
Sec. 40.063. STATE AGENCY UTILITY CHOICE. Notwithstanding
any other provision of this chapter, a state agency whose facility
located in Travis County is served by a municipally owned utility
that has not chosen to participate in customer choice has the right
of customer choice, within the certificated retail service area of
the utility, as if the utility had chosen to participate in customer
choice.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.