HBA-DMD C.S.H.B. 1588 76(R)BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisC.S.H.B. 1588
By: Hope
County Affairs
3/19/1999
Committee Report (Substituted)



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

Under current law, utility companies are required to submit weekly lists of
new electric service connections in an unincorporated area of the county to
the county judge, who must then forward the information to a local
governmental entity.  However, the information is currently not available
to emergency communication districts or appraisal districts. 

C.S.H.B. 1588 requires a county judge to forward the list of all the
addresses that established new electric service to each appraisal district
and each emergency communication district in the county. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does
not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, department, agency, or institution. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 366.005, Health and Safety Code, by amending
Subsection (d) and adding Subsection (e), to require the county judge to
forward the list compiled under Subsection (a) to each appraisal district
and each emergency communication district in the county.  Subsection (a)
requires an electric utility to compile a list weekly of all the addresses
in an unincorporated area of the county that established new service during
the preceding week. Defines "appraisal district," "electric utility," and
"emergency communications district."  Redesignates Subsection (d) to
Subsection (e).  Makes conforming changes. 

SECTION 2.Effective date: September 1, 1999.

SECTION 3.Emergency clause.

COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL TO SUBSTITUTE

C.S.H.B. differs from the original bill in SECTION 1 (Section 366.005(d),
Health and Safety Code), by requiring the county judge to forward the list
compiled under Subsection (a) to each appraisal district and each emergency
communication district in the county, rather than to each emergency
communications district having jurisdiction over an area in which an
address on the list is included.