Bill Text: TX HB1028 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to expedited release from a certificate of public convenience and necessity for water and sewer service for certain landowners.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-09 - Left pending in committee [HB1028 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB1028-Introduced.html
  83R4567 DDT-F
 
  By: Munoz, Jr. H.B. No. 1028
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to expedited release from a certificate of public
  convenience and necessity for water and sewer service for certain
  landowners.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 13.254, Water Code, is amended by
  amending Subsection (a-2) and adding Subsections (a-12) and (a-13)
  to read as follows:
         (a-2)  A landowner is not entitled to make the election
  described in Subsection (a-1) or (a-5) but is entitled to contest
  under Subsection (a) the involuntary certification of its property
  in a hearing held by the commission if the landowner's property is
  located:
               (1)  within the boundaries of any municipality or the
  extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality with a population
  of more than 500,000 and the municipality or retail public utility
  owned by the municipality is the holder of the certificate; or
               (2)  in a platted subdivision actually receiving water
  or sewer service from a certificate holder other than a rural water
  supply corporation that owes a debt to the federal government under
  7 U.S.C. Section 1926.
         (a-12)  Notwithstanding Subsection (a-1), a landowner may
  petition for expedited release under that subsection and is
  entitled to that release if:
               (1)  the landowner's property is located  in the
  boundaries of a municipality;
               (2)  the certificate holder serving the landowner's
  property is a rural water supply corporation that owes a debt to the
  federal government under 7 U.S.C. Section 1926; and
               (3)  in addition to the requirements of Subsection
  (a-1), the landowner demonstrates in the landowner's petition that
  the rural water supply corporation has refused to provide or is not
  capable of providing service in the same manner that the
  municipality would be required to provide if the municipality held
  the certificate for the landowner's property.
         (a-13)  A rural water supply corporation's status as a
  borrower under a federal loan program does not prohibit the release
  requested under Subsection (a-12).
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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