Bill Text: TX SB776 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the operations of a municipally owned utility or municipal power agency; providing authority to issue bonds.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - Effective on 9/1/15 [SB776 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-SB776-Introduced.html

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84R9504 DDT-F
By: Fraser S.B. No. 776

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the authority of the Public Utility Commission of Texas
to approve certain transmission facilities constructed by a
municipally owned utility.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 37.051, Utilities Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
(g) A municipally owned utility may not directly or
indirectly construct, install, operate, or extend a transmission
facility outside of its certificated service area unless the
municipally owned utility first obtains from the commission,
through the application process provided by Section 37.053, a
certificate that states that the public convenience and necessity
requires or will require the transmission facility. Section 37.056
applies to an application under this subsection. This subsection
does not apply to:
(1) a transmission facility that is used solely to
provide the municipally owned utility access to a generation
resource located outside its certificated service area; or
(2) upgrades to an existing transmission line that do
not require any additional land, right-of-way, easement, or other
property not owned by the municipally owned utility.
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, 2015.