Bill Text: TX SB257 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the authority to establish a customer assistance program for certain municipally owned utilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-07 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB257 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB257-Introduced.html
| 86R3255 GRM-F | ||
| By: Rodríguez | S.B. No. 257 | |
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| relating to the authority to establish a customer assistance | ||
| program for certain municipally owned utilities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 552, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 552.916 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 552.916. CUSTOMER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM AUTHORITY FOR | ||
| CERTAIN UTILITIES. (a) This section applies only to a board of | ||
| trustees described by Section 1502.070(a)(2)(B), Government Code. | ||
| (b) A board of trustees has the authority to establish a | ||
| bill payment assistance program for its utility system's customers | ||
| who have exhausted all private and nonprofit sources of utility | ||
| assistance. The program must be for customers: | ||
| (1) who received notice of disconnection of service | ||
| for nonpayment of bills; or | ||
| (2) who the utility determines are low-income | ||
| customers. | ||
| 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, 2019. | ||
