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TX SB2160
Bill
Status
3/10/2025
Primary Sponsor
Peter Flores
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AI Summary
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Grants the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUC) exclusive original jurisdiction over rates, operations, and services of municipally owned water and sewer utilities when service is provided outside the municipality's corporate limits
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Removes the ability of ratepayers outside municipal boundaries to appeal rate decisions of municipally owned utilities to the PUC, eliminating a previous appeal right that existed for customers served outside corporate limits
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Preserves the existing exemption preventing PUC regulation of municipally owned utilities within their own corporate limits
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Simplifies statutory language by consolidating the definition of "municipally owned utility" rather than listing utilities "owned and operated by a municipality, directly or through a municipally owned corporation"
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Applies only to rate proceedings initiated on or after September 1, 2025
Legislative Description
Relating to the jurisdiction of the Public Utility Commission of Texas over municipally owned utility water and sewer service outside the corporate limits of a municipality.
Utilities
Last Action
Left pending in committee
4/14/2025