Bill Text: TX HB2829 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to electricity service provided by certain municipally owned utilities.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-12 - Referred to State Affairs [HB2829 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2829-Introduced.html
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| By: King of Parker | H.B. No. 2829 | |
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| relating to electricity service provided by certain municipally | ||
| owned utilities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 32, Utilities Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Subchapter D to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER D. REVIEW OF RATES OF CERTAIN MUNICIPAL UTILITIES | ||
| Sec. 32.151. APPLICABILITY. This subchapter applies only | ||
| to a municipally owned utility that: | ||
| (1) owns generation assets; and | ||
| (2) is not governed by an independent board. | ||
| Sec. 32.152. REVIEW OF RATES; CUSTOMER CHOICE. (a) | ||
| Notwithstanding any other law, a retail customer or group of | ||
| customers may file a petition for commission review of current or | ||
| proposed rates of a municipally owned utility that apply to the | ||
| petitioning customer or group if the customer or group: | ||
| (1) has a non-demand metered total usage of more than | ||
| 100,000 kilowatt hours per year; or | ||
| (2) is served through a demand meter at secondary or | ||
| primary voltage. | ||
| (b) The commission shall initiate a proceeding not later | ||
| than the 90th day after the petition is submitted to determine | ||
| whether the rates of the municipally owned utility are consistent | ||
| with the rates available to similarly situated customers in areas | ||
| of the state that have access to customer choice. If the commission | ||
| determines that the rates of the municipally owned utility are | ||
| consistent with the rates available to similarly situated customers | ||
| in areas of the state that have access to customer choice, the | ||
| commission shall deny the petition. | ||
| (c) If the commission does not deny the petition under | ||
| Subsection (b), not later than the 90th day after the date of the | ||
| determination described by Subsection (b), the municipally owned | ||
| utility shall file a rate application with the commission that | ||
| complies in all material respects with the rules and forms | ||
| prescribed by the commission. The commission for good cause may | ||
| extend the deadline for filing the rate application. | ||
| (d) The commission shall conduct a full review of the rates | ||
| applicable to the petitioning customer or group to determine | ||
| whether those rates are just and reasonable using the standards | ||
| prescribed by Chapter 36, notwithstanding the lack of consistency | ||
| between those rates and rates available to similarly situated | ||
| customers in areas of the state that have access to customer choice. | ||
| If the commission determines that the rates are just and | ||
| reasonable, the commission shall deny the petition. If the | ||
| commission determines that the rates are not just and reasonable, | ||
| the commission shall set rates for the petitioning customer or | ||
| group that are just, reasonable, and consistent with the rates | ||
| available to similarly situated customers in areas of the state | ||
| that have access to customer choice. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
