Bill Text: TX SB1097 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to single certification in incorporated or annexed areas served by water or sewer utilities.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 4)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-04-14 - No action taken in committee [SB1097 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB1097-Engrossed.html
| By: Eltife, et al. | S.B. No. 1097 | |
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| relating to single certification in incorporated or annexed areas | ||
| served by water or sewer utilities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subsection (j), Section 13.255, Water Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (j) This section shall apply only in a case where: | ||
| (1) the retail public utility that is authorized to | ||
| serve in the certificated area that is annexed or incorporated by | ||
| the municipality is a nonprofit water supply or sewer service | ||
| corporation, a special utility district under Chapter 65, [ |
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| and sewer utility other than a cooperative corporation or affected | ||
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| (2) the retail public utility that is authorized to | ||
| serve in the certificated area that is annexed or incorporated by | ||
| the municipality is a retail public utility, other than a nonprofit | ||
| water supply or sewer service corporation, and whose service area | ||
| is located entirely within the boundaries of a municipality with a | ||
| population of 1.7 million or more according to the most recent | ||
| federal census. | ||
| 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, 2011. | ||
