Bill Text: TX HB1597 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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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-Introduced.html
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-Introduced.html
| By: Murr | H.B. No. 1597 | |
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| relating to tariff filings of telecommunications providers. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 52.251, Utilities Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER F. REQUIRED REPORTS AND FILINGS; RECORDS | ||
| Sec. 52.251. TARIFF FILINGS. (a) A public utility shall file | ||
| with the commission a tariff showing each rate that is: | ||
| (1) subject to the commission's jurisdiction; and | ||
| (2) in effect for a utility service, product, or | ||
| commodity offered by the utility. | ||
| (b) The public utility 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) For purposes of this section, "public utility" is | ||
| defined as: | ||
| (1) A public utility as defined by Section 51.002(8) | ||
| Utilities Code, | ||
| (2) A trade association, as defined by Section | ||
| 11.003(21), Utilities Code, or | ||
| (3) One or more affiliates, as defined by Section | ||
| 11.003(2), Utilities Code. | ||
| (d) If within sixty (60) days after receiving the tariff | ||
| application the Commission does not either approve the tariff | ||
| application, reject the tariff application, or request | ||
| supplemental information, the tariff application shall be deemed | ||
| approved. If the Commission requests supplemental information, | ||
| the public utility has fifteen (15) days to provide the Commission | ||
| with such supplemental information. If within thirty (30) days | ||
| after receiving the supplemental information, the Commission does | ||
| not either approve the tariff application or reject the tariff | ||
| application, the tariff application shall be deemed approved. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
