Bill Text: TX HB2152 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to fees charged to certain recreational vehicle parks.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB2152 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2152-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 2152 | ||
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| relating to fees charged to certain recreational vehicle parks. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 13.087, Water Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (b-1) to read as | ||
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| (b) A municipally owned utility that provides nonsubmetered | ||
| master metered utility service to a recreational vehicle park shall | ||
| determine the rates for that service on the same basis the utility | ||
| uses to determine the rates for other commercial businesses[ |
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| receive nonsubmetered master metered utility service from the | ||
| utility. | ||
| (b-1) A municipally owned utility that provides | ||
| nonsubmetered master metered utility service to a recreational | ||
| vehicle park may not charge a recreational vehicle park a fee that | ||
| the utility does not charge other commercial businesses that serve | ||
| transient customers and receive nonsubmetered master metered | ||
| utility service from the utility. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 49.351, Water Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Subsection (m) to read as follows: | ||
| (m) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, a | ||
| district may not charge a fee to a recreational vehicle park, as | ||
| defined by Section 13.087, on the basis of connections the park | ||
| provides for the park's transient customers. A fee charged to a | ||
| recreational vehicle park must be based on the park's nonsubmetered | ||
| master meter connection. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2152 was passed by the House on May 4, | ||
| 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 134, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to | ||
| H.B. No. 2152 on May 23, 2013, and requested the appointment of a | ||
| conference committee to consider the differences between the two | ||
| houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report | ||
| on H.B. No. 2152 on May 26, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 140, | ||
| Nays 0, 1 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2152 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 20, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
| 0; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference | ||
| committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and | ||
| that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No. | ||
| 2152 on May 26, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
