Bill Text: TX SB1592 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the designation of certain customer bill payment assistance program costs as an expense of operation that is a first lien against revenue securing certain public securities or obligations in certain municipalities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-23 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [SB1592 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1592-Introduced.html
84R11017 TSR-F | ||
By: Lucio | S.B. No. 1592 |
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relating to the designation of certain customer bill payment | ||
assistance program costs as an expense of operation that is a first | ||
lien against revenue securing certain public securities or | ||
obligations in certain municipalities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 1502.056, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows: | ||
(a-1) For a municipality in a county that contains an | ||
international border and borders the Gulf of Mexico, the first lien | ||
against the revenue of a municipally owned utility system that | ||
secures the payment of public securities issued or obligations | ||
incurred under this chapter also applies to funding, as a necessary | ||
operations expense, for a bill payment assistance program for the | ||
utility system's customers who: | ||
(1) have received a notice of disconnection from | ||
service for nonpayment of bills and who have been determined by the | ||
municipality to be low-income customers; | ||
(2) are military veterans who have significantly | ||
decreased abilities to regulate their bodies' core temperatures | ||
because of severe burns received in combat; or | ||
(3) are elderly and low-income customers as determined | ||
by the municipality. | ||
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, 2015. |