Bill Text: TX SB1002 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the designation of program costs for providing bill payment assistance to certain military veterans as a necessary operating expense that is a first lien against revenue of certain electric and gas utilities' revenue securing certain public securities or obligations.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [SB1002 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB1002-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 1002 | ||
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| relating to the designation of program costs for providing bill | ||
| payment assistance to certain military veterans as a necessary | ||
| operating expense that is a first lien against revenue of certain | ||
| electric and gas utilities' revenue securing certain public | ||
| securities or obligations. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 1502.056, Government | ||
| Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) If the revenue of a utility system, park, or swimming | ||
| pool secures the payment of public securities issued or obligations | ||
| incurred under this chapter, each expense of operation and | ||
| maintenance, including all salaries, labor, materials, interest, | ||
| repairs and extensions necessary to provide efficient service, and | ||
| each proper item of expense, is a first lien against that | ||
| revenue. For a municipality with a population of more than one | ||
| million, the first lien against the revenue of a municipally owned | ||
| electric or gas utility system that secures the payment of public | ||
| securities issued or obligations incurred under this chapter also | ||
| applies to funding, as a necessary operations expense, for a bill | ||
| payment assistance program for utility system customers who: | ||
| (1) have been threatened with disconnection from | ||
| service for nonpayment of bills and who have been determined by the | ||
| municipality to be low-income customers; or | ||
| (2) are military veterans who have significantly | ||
| decreased abilities to regulate their bodies' core temperatures | ||
| because of severe burns received in combat. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1002 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 18, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1002 passed the House on | ||
| May 23, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 0, one | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
