Bill Text: TX HB963 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to notice of bill payment assistance programs for certain electric customers.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-08 - Left pending in committee [HB963 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB963-Introduced.html
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By: Perez | H.B. No. 963 |
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relating to notice of bill payment assistance programs for certain | ||
electric customers. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 39, Utilities Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 39.9031 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 39.9031. NOTICE OF ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS. (a) A retail | ||
electric provider, municipally owned utility, or electric | ||
cooperative that provided reduced rates to customers using support | ||
from the former system benefit fund shall provide to those | ||
customers, at least one time, written notice of each bill payment | ||
assistance program that might be available to assist those | ||
customers. Unless the commission under Subsection (b) establishes | ||
an alternative manner in which the notice may be sent, the retail | ||
electric provider, municipally owned utility, or electric | ||
cooperative shall include the notice with a bill sent to the | ||
customer. | ||
(b) The commission may adopt rules establishing an | ||
alternate method of providing the notice described by Subsection | ||
(a). | ||
(c) A notice required by this section must be provided not | ||
later than March 1, 2018. | ||
(d) This section expires September 1, 2019. | ||
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, 2017. |