Bill Text: TX HB4385 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the provision of sewer service without a certificate of public convenience and necessity.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB4385 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4385-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the provision of sewer service without a certificate of public convenience and necessity.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB4385 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4385-Comm_Sub.html
By: Guillen (Senate Sponsor - Alvarado) | H.B. No. 4385 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 1, 2023; | ||
May 2, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Water, | ||
Agriculture & Rural Affairs; May 19, 2023, reported favorably by | ||
the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 19, 2023, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to the provision of sewer service without a certificate of | ||
public convenience and necessity. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 13.242(c), Water Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(c) The utility commission may by rule allow a municipality | ||
or utility or water supply corporation to render retail water | ||
service without a certificate of public convenience and necessity | ||
if the municipality has given notice under Section 13.255 that it | ||
intends to provide retail water service to an area or if the utility | ||
or water supply corporation has less than 15 potential connections | ||
and is not within the certificated area of another retail public | ||
utility. The utility commission may by rule allow a municipality or | ||
utility or water supply corporation to render retail sewer service | ||
without a certificate of public convenience and necessity if the | ||
municipality has given notice under Section 13.255 that it intends | ||
to provide retail sewer service to an area or if the utility or | ||
water supply corporation has less than 15 potential connections and | ||
is not within the certificated area of another retail public | ||
utility. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
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