Bill Text: TX HB4010 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 4010

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the assessment on the gross receipts of electricity for certain providers of retail electric service.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-20 - Referred to State Affairs [HB4010 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB4010-Introduced.html

	88R13349 CXP-D

	By: Bell of Montgomery	H.B. No. 4010



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the assessment on the gross receipts of electricity for
	certain providers of retail electric service.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Sections 16.001(a) and (b), Utilities Code, are
	amended to read as follows:
	(a) To pay [~~defray~~] the expenses incurred in the
	administration of this title, an assessment is imposed on each
	public utility, retail electric provider, and electric cooperative
	within the jurisdiction of the commission that serves the ultimate
	consumer, including each interexchange telecommunications carrier.
	(b) An assessment under this section is equal to a
	percentage [~~one-sixth of one percent~~] of the public utility's,
	retail electric provider's, or electric cooperative's gross
	receipts from rates charged to the ultimate consumer in this state
	estimated by the commission to match the total amount of money
	appropriated to the commission by the legislature to administer
	this title for that state fiscal biennium.
	SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act does not
	affect assessments due before the effective date of this Act, and
	the law in effect before the effective date of this Act is continued
	in effect for purposes of the liability for those assessments.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.