Bill Text: TX SB1100 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to electricity service provided by certain municipally owned utilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-04 - Left pending in committee [SB1100 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1100-Introduced.html
86R9432 JXC-D | ||
By: Buckingham | S.B. No. 1100 |
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relating to electricity service provided by certain municipally | ||
owned utilities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 32, Utilities Code, is amended by adding | ||
Subchapter D to read as follows: | ||
SUBCHAPTER D. REVIEW OF RATES OF CERTAIN MUNICIPAL UTILITIES | ||
Sec. 32.151. APPLICABILITY. This subchapter applies only | ||
to a municipally owned utility that provides service in the Capitol | ||
complex, as defined by Section 443.0071, Government Code. | ||
Sec. 32.152. REVIEW OF RATES; CUSTOMER CHOICE. (a) | ||
Notwithstanding any other law, a retail customer or group of | ||
customers may file a petition for commission review of current or | ||
proposed rates of a municipally owned utility that apply to the | ||
petitioning customer or group if the customer or group: | ||
(1) has a non-demand metered total usage of more than | ||
100,000 kilowatt hours per year; or | ||
(2) is served through a demand meter at secondary or | ||
primary voltage. | ||
(b) The commission shall initiate a proceeding not later | ||
than the 90th day after the petition is submitted to determine | ||
whether the rates of the municipally owned utility are consistent | ||
with the rates available to similarly situated customers in areas | ||
of the state that have access to customer choice. If the commission | ||
determines that the rates of the municipally owned utility are | ||
consistent with the rates available to similarly situated customers | ||
in areas of the state that have access to customer choice, the | ||
commission shall deny the petition. | ||
(c) If the commission does not deny the petition under | ||
Subsection (b), not later than the 90th day after the date of the | ||
determination described by Subsection (b), the municipally owned | ||
utility shall file a rate application with the commission that | ||
complies in all material respects with the rules and forms | ||
prescribed by the commission. The commission for good cause may | ||
extend the deadline for filing the rate application. | ||
(d) The commission shall conduct a full review of the rates | ||
applicable to the petitioning customer or group to determine | ||
whether those rates are just and reasonable using the standards | ||
prescribed by Chapter 36, notwithstanding the lack of consistency | ||
between those rates and rates available to similarly situated | ||
customers in areas of the state that have access to customer choice. | ||
If the commission determines that the rates are just and | ||
reasonable, the commission shall deny the petition. If the | ||
commission determines that the rates are not just and reasonable, | ||
the commission shall set rates for the petitioning customer or | ||
group that are just, reasonable, and consistent with the rates | ||
available to similarly situated customers in areas of the state | ||
that have access to customer choice. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |