Bill Text: TX HB252 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to water shortage reporting by water utilities and providers of wholesale water service.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB252 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB252-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 252 | ||
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| relating to water shortage reporting by water utilities and | ||
| providers of wholesale water service. | ||
| 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. WATER SHORTAGE REPORT. (a) A retail public | ||
| utility and each entity from which the utility is obtaining | ||
| wholesale water service for the utility's retail system shall | ||
| notify the commission when the utility or entity is reasonably | ||
| certain that the water supply will be available for less than 180 | ||
| days. | ||
| (b) The commission shall adopt rules to implement this | ||
| section and prescribe the form and content of notice required under | ||
| this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 252 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 19, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 137, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 252 on May 17, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 0, 3 | ||
| present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 252 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 15, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
| 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
