Journal of the Senate, Regular Session of the Seventy-Ninth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 3 Page: 2,574
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The motion was lost by the following vote: Yeas 17, Nays 11. (Not receiving
two-thirds vote of Members present)
Yeas: Averitt, Barrientos, Carona, Deuell, Duncan, Ellis, Gallegos, Hinojosa,
Lindsay, Lucio, Nelson, Shapleigh, Van de Putte, Wentworth, West, Whitmire,
Zaffirini.
Nays: Armbrister, Brimer, Eltife, Estes, Fraser, Harris, Jackson, Madla, Seliger,
Shapiro, Williams.
Absent: Ogden.
Absent-excused: Janek, Staples.
HOUSE BILL 872 ON SECOND READING
On motion of Senator Armbrister and by unanimous consent, the regular order of
business was suspended to take up for consideration HB 872 at this time on its second
reading:
HB 872, Relating to the imposition of the pipeline safety annual inspection fee
by the Railroad Commission of Texas.
The bill was read second time.
Senator Armbrister offered the following amendment to the bill:
Floor Amendment No. 1
Amend HB 872 as follows:
Add a new SECTION 2 to HB 872 which reads as follows, and renumber the
remaining SECTIONS accordingly:
SECTION 2. Subsection (a), Section 104.301, Utilities Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) A gas utility that has filed a rate case under Subchapter C within the
preceding two years may file with the regulatory authority a tariff or rate schedule that
provides for an interim adjustment in the utility's monthly customer charge or initial
block rate to recover the cost of changes in the investment in service for gas utility
services. The adjustment shall be allocated among the gas utility's classes of
customers in the same manner as the cost of service was allocated among classes of
customers in the utility's latest effective rates for the area in which the tariff or rate
schedule is implemented. The gas utility shall file the tariff or rate schedule, or the
annual adjustment under Subsection (c), with the regulatory authority at least 60 days
before the proposed implementation date of the tariff, rate schedule, or annual
adjustment. The gas utility shall provide notice of the tariff, rate schedule, or annual
adjustment to affected customers by bill insert of direct mail not later than the 45th
day after the date the utility files the tariff, rate schedule, or annual adjustment with
the regulatory authority. During the 60-day period, the regulatory authority may act to
suspend the implementation of the tariff, rate schedule, or annual adjustment for up to
45 days. After the issuance of a final order or decision by a regulatory authority in a
rate case that is filed after the implementation of a tariff or rate schedule under this
section, any change in investment that has been included in an interim adjustment in
accordance with the tariff or rate schedule under this section shall no longer be subject2574
79th Legislature - Regular Session
73rd Day
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