Bill Text: TX HB3417 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the process for initiating, transferring, or terminating water or sewer service.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-09 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB3417 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB3417-Comm_Sub.html

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88R12888 ANG-F
By: Rogers H.B. No. 3417

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the process for initiating, transferring, or
terminating water or sewer 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 13.152 to read as follows:
Sec. 13.152. INITIATION, TRANSFER, OR TERMINATION OF
SERVICE. A retail public utility may initiate, transfer, or
terminate a customer's retail water or sewer service on receipt of a
customer request by mail, by telephone, through an Internet
website, or through another electronic transmission.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.