Bill Text: TX SB1778 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 1778

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Bill Title: Relating to the process for initiating, transferring, or terminating water or sewer service.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2023-05-23 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB1778 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB1778-Comm_Sub.html



	By: Alvarado	S.B. No. 1778

	(Rogers, Oliverson)


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the process for initiating, transferring, or
	terminating water or sewer service.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 13, Water Code, is amended
	by adding Section 13.152 to read as follows:
	Sec. 13.152. INITIATION, TRANSFER, OR TERMINATION OF
	SERVICE. A retail public utility may initiate, transfer, or
	terminate a customer's retail water or sewer service on receipt of a
	customer request by mail, by telephone, through an Internet
	website, or through another electronic transmission.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.