Bill Text: TX HB685 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to rates established by municipalities for water or sewer service for certain entities.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 3)
Status: (Passed) 2025-06-20 - Effective on 9/1/25 [HB685 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB685-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 685 | ||
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| relating to rates established by municipalities for water or sewer | ||
| service for certain entities. | ||
| 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. PROHIBITION ON RATE DISCRIMINATION. A | ||
| municipality may not establish a rate for water or sewer utility | ||
| service applicable only to entities that qualify for a sales tax or | ||
| ad valorem tax exemption that is higher than a rate established for | ||
| entities that receive comparable utility service. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 685 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 23, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 685 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 25, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
