Bill Text: TX HB4735 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 4735

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to discounted rates for electric service provided to certain political subdivisions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-22 - Referred to State Affairs [HB4735 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB4735-Introduced.html

	88R14146 CXP-F

	By: González of El Paso	H.B. No. 4735



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to discounted rates for electric service provided to
	certain political subdivisions.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter H, Chapter 36, Utilities Code, is
	amended by adding Section 36.3511 to read as follows:
	Sec. 36.3511. DISCOUNTED RATES FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTS
	AND OTHER POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS IN CERTAIN COUNTIES. (a) This
	section applies only to a facility receiving electric service in a
	county that is located on the international border and contains a
	municipality with a population of 500,000 or more.
	(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, each
	electric utility and municipally owned utility shall discount
	charges for electric service provided to a facility of a public
	school district or other political subdivision that:
	(1) is authorized to impose an ad valorem tax; or
	(2) provides public housing.
	(c) The discount is a 20 percent reduction of the utility's
	base rates that would otherwise be paid under the applicable
	tariffed rate.
	(d) An electric or municipally owned utility is exempt from
	this section if the 20 percent discount results in a reduction equal
	to more than one percent of the utility's total annual revenues.
	(e) An electric utility may not recover from residential
	customers or any other customer class the assigned and allocated
	costs of serving a public school district or other political
	subdivision that receives a discount under this section.
	(f) Each electric utility shall file tariffs with the
	commission reflecting the discount required under this section.
	The initial tariff filing is not a rate change for purposes of
	Subchapter C.
	SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
	a contract entered into on or after the effective date of this Act.
	A contract entered into before the effective date of this Act is
	governed by the law as it existed immediately before the effective
	date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that
	purpose.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.