Bill Text: TX HB3689 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the appeal of rates charged for water or sewer service by certain retail public utilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-04 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB3689 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3689-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the appeal of rates charged for water or sewer service by certain retail public utilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-04 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB3689 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB3689-Comm_Sub.html
By: Cortez (Senate Sponsor - Gutierrez) | H.B. No. 3689 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 2021; | ||
May 10, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on Water, | ||
Agriculture & Rural Affairs; May 13, 2021, reported favorably by | ||
the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 13, 2021, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the appeal of rates charged for water or sewer service | ||
by certain retail public utilities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 13.043(j), Water Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(j) In an appeal under this section, the utility commission | ||
shall ensure that every appealed rate is [ |
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shall not be unreasonably preferential, prejudicial, or | ||
discriminatory but shall be sufficient, equitable, and consistent | ||
in application to each class of customers. The utility commission | ||
shall use a methodology that preserves the financial integrity of | ||
the retail public utility. For agreements between municipalities | ||
the utility commission shall consider the terms of any wholesale | ||
water or sewer service agreement in an appellate rate proceeding. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
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