Bill Text: TX HB4385 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the provision of sewer service without a certificate of public convenience and necessity.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB4385 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4385-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 4385 | ||
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| relating to the provision of sewer service without a certificate of | ||
| public convenience and necessity. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 13.242(c), Water Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (c) The utility commission may by rule allow a municipality | ||
| or utility or water supply corporation to render retail water | ||
| service without a certificate of public convenience and necessity | ||
| if the municipality has given notice under Section 13.255 that it | ||
| intends to provide retail water service to an area or if the utility | ||
| or water supply corporation has less than 15 potential connections | ||
| and is not within the certificated area of another retail public | ||
| utility. The utility commission may by rule allow a municipality or | ||
| utility or water supply corporation to render retail sewer service | ||
| without a certificate of public convenience and necessity if the | ||
| municipality has given notice under Section 13.255 that it intends | ||
| to provide retail sewer service to an area or if the utility or | ||
| water supply corporation has less than 15 potential connections and | ||
| is not within the certificated area of another retail public | ||
| utility. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 4385 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 28, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 4, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 4385 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 24, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
