Bill Text: TX SB488 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to discounted utility rates for public educational institutions; providing an administrative penalty.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-13 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB488 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB488-Introduced.html
| 83R5738 RWG-F | ||
| By: Davis | S.B. No. 488 | |
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| relating to discounted utility rates for public educational | ||
| institutions; providing an administrative penalty. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. The heading to Section 36.351, Utilities Code, | ||
| is amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 36.351. DISCOUNTED RATES FOR CERTAIN SCHOOLS AND | ||
| INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 36.351, Utilities Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsections (a), (b), and (f) and adding Subsections (b-1) | ||
| and (d-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, each | ||
| electric utility and transmission and distribution utility and, | ||
| except as provided by Subsection (d-1), each municipally owned | ||
| utility shall discount charges for electric service provided to a | ||
| facility of a four-year state university, upper-level institution, | ||
| Texas State Technical College, junior [ |
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| school district, or open-enrollment charter school. | ||
| (b) The discount is a 20-percent reduction of the utility's | ||
| base rates that would otherwise be paid under the applicable | ||
| tariffed rate. The discount shall be provided either directly to an | ||
| educational entity described by Subsection (a) or to a retail | ||
| electric provider that also provides service to the educational | ||
| entity. | ||
| (b-1) A retail electric provider that receives a discount | ||
| under Subsection (b) shall apply the discount to an educational | ||
| entity described by Subsection (a) as a credit in an amount equal to | ||
| the amount of the discount. The commission may suspend, revoke, or | ||
| amend the certificate of a retail electric provider that does not | ||
| apply the discount as required by this subsection. The commission | ||
| shall impose an administrative penalty on a retail electric | ||
| provider that does not apply the discount as required by this | ||
| subsection. | ||
| (d-1) A municipally owned utility is exempt from the | ||
| requirement to discount charges for electric service provided to a | ||
| junior college, independent school district, or open-enrollment | ||
| charter school. | ||
| (f) An investor-owned electric utility may not recover from | ||
| residential customers or any other customer class the assigned and | ||
| allocated costs of serving an educational entity [ |
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| After September 1, 2013, an investor-owned electric utility is | ||
| subject to the requirements of this subsection unless a regulatory | ||
| authority authorizes other ratemaking treatment. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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, 2013. | ||
