Bill Text: TX HB3205 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a customer to choose not to have an advanced meter installed.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-18 - Referred to State Affairs [HB3205 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB3205-Introduced.html
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| By: Davis of Dallas | H.B. No. 3205 | |
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| relating to the authority of a customer to choose not to have an | ||
| advanced meter installed. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 39.107, Utilities Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsections (k) and (l) to read as follows: | ||
| (k) An electric utility or transmission and distribution | ||
| utility that receives from the commission approval of the utility's | ||
| plan for deploying advanced meters shall send to each customer | ||
| scheduled to receive an advanced meter under the plan a notice that | ||
| the customer may decline to have the meter installed. The utility | ||
| shall send the notice to the customer's billing address by mail and | ||
| describe the manner in which the customer may decline installation. | ||
| If the utility includes the notice with the customer's bill, the | ||
| utility must print the notice on a separate page. | ||
| (l) If, not later than the 30th day after the date the | ||
| customer receives the notice, the customer declines to have the | ||
| advanced meter installed, the utility may not: | ||
| (1) install the meter; or | ||
| (2) charge the customer the nonbypassable surcharge | ||
| otherwise authorized by Subsection (h). | ||
| SECTION 2. (a) An electric utility or transmission and | ||
| distribution utility that, before the effective date of this Act, | ||
| received approval from the Public Utility Commission of Texas of | ||
| the utility's plan for deploying advanced meters but that has not | ||
| completed that deployment on the effective date of this Act, shall | ||
| suspend that deployment on the effective date of this Act. | ||
| (b) Not later than the 15th day after the effective date of | ||
| this Act, the electric utility or transmission and distribution | ||
| utility shall send to each customer who is scheduled to receive an | ||
| advanced meter under the deployment plan, but who has not received | ||
| the meter, the notice required by Section 39.107(k), Utilities | ||
| Code, as added by this Act. If a customer declines installation of | ||
| the meter, as provided by Section 39.107(l), Utilities Code, as | ||
| added by this Act, the utility shall refund to the customer the | ||
| amount of any nonbypassable surcharge imposed under Section | ||
| 39.107(h), Utilities Code, that the utility previously collected | ||
| from the customer. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
