Bill Text: TX SB885 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to notice of utility rate increases.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-05-18 - Effective on 9/1/13 [SB885 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB885-Enrolled.html
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| relating to notice of utility rate increases. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 104.103, Utilities Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (c) to read as | ||
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| (b) Instead of publishing newspaper notice, a gas utility | ||
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| (1) mailing the notice by United States mail, postage | ||
| prepaid, to the billing address of each directly affected customer; | ||
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| (2) including the notice, in conspicuous form, in the | ||
| bill of each directly affected customer; or | ||
| (3) sending the notice by e-mail to each directly | ||
| affected customer if that address is available to the utility. | ||
| (c) A gas utility may provide a customer with notice of the | ||
| utility's intent to increase rates by e-mail as described by | ||
| Subsection (b)(3) only if the customer has consented in writing to | ||
| the use of the customer's e-mail address for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
| to a notice of a proposed utility rate increase provided on or after | ||
| the effective date of this Act. Notice provided before the | ||
| effective date of this Act is governed by the law as it existed | ||
| immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is | ||
| continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 885 passed the Senate on | ||
| March 27, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 885 passed the House on | ||
| May 2, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 0, two present | ||
| not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
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| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
