Bill Text: TX HB382 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the authority to establish a customer assistance program for certain municipally owned utilities.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-04-08 - Referred to Business & Commerce [HB382 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB382-Engrossed.html
| By: Ortega, Moody, González of El Paso, | H.B. No. 382 | |
| Blanco, Fierro | ||
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| relating to the authority to establish a customer assistance | ||
| program for certain municipally owned utilities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 552, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 552.916 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 552.916. CUSTOMER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM AUTHORITY FOR | ||
| CERTAIN UTILITIES. (a) This section applies only to a board of | ||
| trustees described by Section 1502.070(a)(2)(B), Government Code. | ||
| (b) A board of trustees has the authority to establish a | ||
| bill payment assistance program for its utility system's customers | ||
| who have exhausted all private and nonprofit sources of utility | ||
| assistance. The program must be for customers: | ||
| (1) who received notice of disconnection of service | ||
| for nonpayment of bills; or | ||
| (2) who the utility determines are low-income | ||
| customers. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
