Bill Text: TX HB1597 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to tariff filing requirements for certain telecommunications providers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB1597 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1597-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 1597 | ||
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| relating to tariff filing requirements for certain | ||
| telecommunications providers. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 52.251, Utilities Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsections (a-1), (c), and (d) and amending Subsection (b) | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (a-1) An affiliate or trade association may file the tariff | ||
| required under Subsection (a) on behalf of the public utility. | ||
| (b) The public utility, affiliate, or trade association | ||
| shall file as a part of the tariff required under Subsection (a) | ||
| each rule that relates to or affects: | ||
| (1) a rate of the utility; or | ||
| (2) a utility service, product, or commodity furnished | ||
| by the utility. | ||
| (c) The tariff filing is considered approved if the | ||
| commission does not approve or deny the tariff filing or request | ||
| supplemental information from the public utility, affiliate, or | ||
| trade association that filed the tariff before the 60th day after | ||
| receiving the tariff filing. | ||
| (d) If the commission requests supplemental information | ||
| from the public utility, affiliate, or trade association under | ||
| Subsection (c), the utility, affiliate, or association must provide | ||
| the commission with the supplemental information not later than the | ||
| 15th day after receiving the request from the commission. If the | ||
| commission does not approve or deny the tariff filing before the | ||
| 30th day after the commission receives the supplemental | ||
| information, the tariff filing is considered approved. | ||
| SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
| a tariff filed under Section 52.251, Utilities Code, as amended by | ||
| this Act, on or after the effective date of this Act. A tariff filed | ||
| before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in | ||
| effect on the date the tariff was filed, and the former law is | ||
| continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 1597 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 28, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 135, Nays 9, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 1597 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 24, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
