Bill Text: TX HB1458 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the management and operation of certain municipally owned electric utilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-12 - Left pending in committee [HB1458 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1458-Introduced.html
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| By: Workman | H.B. No. 1458 | |
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| relating to the management and operation of certain municipally | ||
| owned electric utilities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 552.122, Local Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: | ||
| (c) Notwithstanding any other law, including a municipal | ||
| ordinance or provision of a municipal charter, a municipality with | ||
| a population of less than 850,000 that is served by a municipally | ||
| owned electric utility system with 400,000 or more customers may | ||
| transfer management and control of the municipality's electric | ||
| utility system to a board of trustees appointed by the | ||
| municipality's governing body. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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, 2017. | ||
