Bill Text: TX SB885 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to notice of utility rate increases.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-05-18 - Effective on 9/1/13 [SB885 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB885-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 885 |
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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 | ||
follows: | ||
(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. | ||
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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. | ||
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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. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |