Bill Text: TX HB1461 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub

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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-Comm_Sub.html

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83R22417 DDT-F
By: Aycock H.B. No. 1461
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1461:
By: Miller of Comal C.S.H.B. No. 1461

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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.