Bill Text: TX SB758 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to bill payment assistance programs offered by certain municipalities.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-18 - Effective on 9/1/17 [SB758 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB758-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 758 | ||
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| relating to bill payment assistance programs offered by certain | ||
| municipalities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 1502.056(a), Government Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (a) If the revenue of a utility system, park, or swimming | ||
| pool secures the payment of public securities issued or obligations | ||
| incurred under this chapter, each expense of operation and | ||
| maintenance, including all salaries, labor, materials, interest, | ||
| repairs and extensions necessary to provide efficient service, and | ||
| each proper item of expense, is a first lien against that revenue. | ||
| For a municipality with a population of more than one million but | ||
| less than two million, 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 utility system customers who: | ||
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| municipality to be low-income customers; or | ||
| (2) are military veterans who have significantly | ||
| decreased abilities to regulate their bodies' core temperatures | ||
| because of severe burns received in combat. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 758 passed the Senate on | ||
| March 30, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 2. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 758 passed the House on | ||
| May 4, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 111, Nays 35, two | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
