Bill Text: TX HB1461 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to customer notification of water loss by a retail public utility.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB1461 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1461-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 1461 | ||
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| relating to customer notification of water loss by a retail public | ||
| utility. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 13, Water Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 13.148 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 13.148. NOTIFICATION OF WATER LOSS. (a) The | ||
| commission by rule shall require a retail public utility that files | ||
| a water audit required by Section 16.0121 to notify each of the | ||
| utility's customers of the water loss reported in the water audit. | ||
| (b) A retail public utility shall provide the notice | ||
| required under Subsection (a) on or with: | ||
| (1) the utility's next annual consumer confidence | ||
| report delivered after the water audit is filed; or | ||
| (2) the next bill the customer receives after the | ||
| water audit is filed. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 1461 was passed by the House on May | ||
| 10, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 3, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 1461 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 20, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 26, Nays 5. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
