Bill Text: TX SB907 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to bill payment assistance programs for utility customers offered by certain municipalities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-24 - Filed [SB907 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB907-Introduced.html
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| By: Blanco | S.B. No. 907 | |
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| relating to bill payment assistance programs for utility customers | ||
| offered by certain municipalities. | ||
| 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 552.9145 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 552.9145. CUSTOMER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR UTILITY | ||
| SYSTEM CUSTOMERS IN CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES. (a) In this section, | ||
| "utility system" has the meaning assigned by Section 552.914. | ||
| (b) This section applies only to a municipality described by | ||
| Section 1502.070(a)(2)(B), Government Code. | ||
| (c) The board of trustees vested with the management and | ||
| control of a municipality's utility system has exclusive authority | ||
| to establish a bill payment assistance program for utility system | ||
| customers: | ||
| (1) who the utility determines are low-income | ||
| customers whose service was disconnected for nonpayment by the | ||
| utility system three or more times during a calendar year; or | ||
| (2) who are 75 years of age or older and have received | ||
| a notice of disconnection from service from the utility system for | ||
| nonpayment of bills. | ||
| 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, 2025. | ||
